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“Ashley Wright’s Opium and Empire in South-East Asia is the latest addition to this growing historiography. It is a thorough study of what is now Myanmar and was once Burma that does much to further nuance our understanding of the complexities and paradoxes of the history of intoxicants in Asia. … The new evidence of the complexities of governing intoxicants in this book makes it another significant contribution to the revisionist movement in the history of narcotics in modern Asia.” (Professor James H. Mills, Reviews in History, history.ac.uk, October, 2016)
'There is now a rich literature on the British imperial opium trade throughout Asia, but Ashley Wright's Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia: Regulating Consumption in British Burma is the first one devoted specifically to Burma, and for that reason specialists will wish to engage with it. Her arguments are clear and convincing. She is deeply conversant with the now very rich literature on opium and the British Empire.'- Philip Harling, Journal of British Studies, 54, (2015)
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Book Title: Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia
Book Subtitle: Regulating Consumption in British Burma
Authors: Ashley Wright
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137317605
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29646-6Published: 21 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33362-2Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31760-5Published: 21 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 214
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, Political History, Modern History, Asian History, History of Southeast Asia