Secret trades, porous borders smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915 / [electronic resource] :
Eric Tagliacozzo.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
- xvi, 437 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Smuggling--History.--Southeast Asia Drug traffic--History.--Southeast Asia Counterfeits and counterfeiting--History.--Southeast Asia Illegal arms transfers--History.--Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia--Commerce--History. Southeast Asia--Boundaries--History. Great Britain--Colonies--History.--Asia Netherlands--Colonies--History--Asia--19th century.