Secret trades, porous borders : smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865 - 1915

Secret trades, porous borders smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865 - 1915

Building the frontier : drawing lines in physical space. Mapping the frontier -- Enforcing the frontier -- Strengthening the frontier -- Imagining the frontier : state visions of danger along the border. The specter of violence -- "Foreign Asians" on the frontier -- The indigenous threat -...

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1. Verfasser: Tagliacozzo, Eric (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New Haven u.a. Yale University Press 2005
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Smuggling > History > Drug traffic > Counterfeits and counterfeiting > Illegal arms transfers > Asia, Southeastern > Southeast Asia > Commerce > Boundaries > Great Britain > Colonies > Netherlands > Südostasien > Schmuggel > Geschichte 1865-1915
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Zusammenfassung:Building the frontier : drawing lines in physical space. Mapping the frontier -- Enforcing the frontier -- Strengthening the frontier -- Imagining the frontier : state visions of danger along the border. The specter of violence -- "Foreign Asians" on the frontier -- The indigenous threat -- Secret trades, porous borders. The smuggling of narcotics -- Counterfeiters across the frontier -- Illicit human cargoes -- The illegal weapons trade across the Anglo/Dutch frontier. Munitions and borders : arms in context -- Praxis and evasion : arms in motion -- A frontier story : the sorrows of Golam Merican. Contraband and the junk Kim Ban An -- Worlds of illegality, 1873-99
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-415) and index
Beschreibung:XVI, 437 S
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt
25 cm
ISBN:0300089686
0-300-08968-6
9780300143300
978-0-300-14330-0