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Secret trades, porous borders : smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915
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- Creator
- Eric Tagliacozzo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1281730025, 9780300143300, 9786611730024, 9780300128123, 9780300089684, 0300128126, 0300089686, 0300143303, 9781281730022
- OCLC
- ocn923591624, ocn952731956, ocm57068536, ocn128311615
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-415) and index.
- Building the frontier : drawing lines in physical space -- Mapping the frontier -- Enforcing the frontier -- Strengthening the frontier -- The specter of violence -- "foreign Asians" on the frontier -- The indigenous threat -- The smuggling of narcotics -- Counterfeiters across the frontier -- Illicit human cargoes -- Munitions and borders : arms in context -- Praxis and evasion : arms in motion -- Contraband and the junk Kim Ban An -- Worlds of illegality, 1873-99
Subjects
- Smuggling -- Southeast Asia -- History.
- Drug traffic -- Southeast Asia -- History.
- Counterfeits and counterfeiting -- Southeast Asia -- History.
- Illegal arms transfers -- Southeast Asia -- History.
- Southeast Asia -- Commerce -- History.
- Southeast Asia -- Boundaries -- History.
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- History.
- Netherlands -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 19th century.