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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tagliacozzo, Eric.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
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.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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