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Secret trades, porous borders

by Tagliacozzo, Eric.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Yale University Press, (New Haven :) Physical details: xvi, 437 p. : ill., maps.
Subject(s): 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2005
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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, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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