Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910 by James R. Rush

Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910

James R. Rush

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Opium smoking was a widespread social custom in nineteenth-century Java, and commercial trade in opium had far-reaching economic and political implications. As in many of the Dutch territories in the Indonesian archipelago, the drug was imported f...

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