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Secret trades, porous borders [electronic resource] : smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915 / Eric Tagliacozzo.

By: Tagliacozzo, Eric.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005Description: xvi, 437 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.Subject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 364.1/33 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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364.1/33 (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-415) and index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.