TY - BOOK ID - 104706022 TI - History of the opium problem : the assault on the East, ca. 1600 – 1950. PY - 2012 SN - 9789004225893 9789004221581 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - East and West KW - Imperialism KW - Opium abuse KW - Opium trade KW - S02/0300 KW - S09/0200 KW - S11/0910 KW - Opium industry KW - Opium poppy industry KW - Drug traffic KW - Opium addiction KW - Opium habit KW - Drug abuse KW - Colonialism KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Political science KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism KW - Civilization, Western KW - Civilization, Oriental KW - Occident and Orient KW - Orient and Occident KW - West and East KW - Eastern question KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - China: General works--Chinese culture and the West and vice-versa KW - China: Foreign relations and world politics--General works and before 1840 KW - China: Social sciences--Opium and drugs KW - Asian influences KW - Oriental influences KW - Western influences KW - East and West. KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:104706022 AB - This is the first scholarly study in which the production, trade and political effects of opium and its derivatives are shown over many centuries, and in many countries (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, all Southeast Asian countries and some in Europe and the Americas). Starting in the 16th century, slavery and opium became the two means with which the bodies and souls of men and women in the tropics were exploited in western imperialism and colonialism. The first waned with the abolition movement in the 19th century, but opium production and trade continued to spread, with the associated serious social and political effects. Around 1670 the Dutch introduced opium as a cash crop for mass production and distribution in India and Indonesia. China became the main target in the 19th century, and only succeeded in getting rid of the opium problem around 1950. Then it had already been transformed from an “Eastern” into a “Western” problem. ER -