Tagliacozzo, Eric.

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.


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2009.
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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.


Electronic books.

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