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Secret Trades, Porous Borders:
Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asia Frontier, 1865-1915 |
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Eric Tagliacozzo |
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Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and the Dutch delineated colonial
spheres in the process of 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. This book presents
a history of the evolution of this 3,000 km frontier, and then inquires into the smuggling of contraband:
who smuggled and why, what routes were favoured 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.
Winner of the 2007 Harry J. Benda Prize!
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publication year: 2007
438 pages
ISBN: 978 9971693855 Paperback
US$25.00 | S$38.00
NUS Press edition is available in Asia only
Co-published with Yale University Press
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