Secret trades, porous borders : smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915

Publication Data

• Title Secret trades, porous borders : smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915
• Author Eric Tagliacozzo
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location New Haven, Conn.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• 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 century
• Southeast Asia
• Great Britain
• Netherlands

Secret trades, porous borders : smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915 by Eric Tagliacozzo. ISBN 0300089686. Published by Yale University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.