Secret Trades, Porous Borders
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Secret Trades, Porous Borders

Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915

  1. 454 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Secret Trades, Porous Borders

Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915

About this book

Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency runners, and human traffickers who pierced such newly drawn borders with growing success.

The book presents a history of the evolution of this 3000-km frontier, and then inquires into the smuggling of contraband: who smuggled and why, what routes were favored, and how effectively the British and Dutch were able to enforce their economic, moral, and political will. Examining the history of states and smugglers playing off one another within a hidden but powerful economy of forbidden cargoes, the book also offers new insights into the modern political economies of Southeast Asia.

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Information

Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780300128123
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. A Note on Orthography and Usage
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Chapter 1. Introduction
  6. Part I. Creating the Frontier: Border Formation and the State
  7. Section I. Building the Frontier
  8. Chapter 2. Mapping the Frontier
  9. Chapter 3. Enforcing the Frontier
  10. Chapter 4. Strengthening the Frontier
  11. Section II. Imagining the Frontier
  12. Chapter 5. The Specter of Violence
  13. Chapter 6. “Foreign Asians” on the Frontier
  14. Chapter 7. The Indigenous Threat
  15. Part II. Crossing the Frontier: Smuggling, Profit, and Resistance
  16. Section III. Secret Trades, Porous Borders
  17. Chapter 8. The Smuggling of Narcotics
  18. Chapter 9. Counterfeiters Across the Frontier
  19. Chapter 10. Illicit Human Cargoes
  20. Section IV. The Illegal Weapons Trade Across the Anglo/Dutch Frontier
  21. Chapter 11. Munitions and Borders: Arms in Context
  22. Chapter 12. Praxis and Evasion: Arms in Motion
  23. Section V. A Frontier Story: The Sorrows of Golam Merican
  24. Chapter 13. Contraband and the Junk Kim Ban An
  25. Chapter 14. Worlds of Illegality, 1873–99
  26. Chapter 15. Conclusion
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index