OPIUM AND FOREIGN POLICY - The Anglo-American Search for Order in Asia, 1912-1954
Language: English
Published by Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1991 [, 1991
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] First Printing. Hardback, octavo, xviii + 345 pages, Very Near Fine in like dj (dj now protected by removable clear mylar sleeve). About flawless, both book and dj. 3 maps & 124 pgs of rear matter (Notes, Bibliography, Index). RWR5 East Asian Studies China Indochina Thailand Burma Japan United States Great Britain Global International Drug Policy Control Trade Economics American History US State Department UK Foreign Office.
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- Title
- OPIUM AND FOREIGN POLICY - The Anglo-American Search for Order in Asia, 1912-1954
- Author
- William O. Walker III
- Publisher
- Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1991 [
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807819700
- ISBN 13
- 9780807819708
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Throughout much of China and Southeast Asia, many farmers had cultivated opium for generations, and at times survival itself seemed to depend upon the market for the poppy crop. Before World War II, the British tolerated the deeply entrenched culture of the poppy in China in order to safeguard their economic and political interests. Conversely, the Americans, who had far less at stake in Asia strategically or economically, consistently opposed the opium trade. During the war, the United States defined opium as a strategic commodity and tried to restrict Japanese access to it. Following the war, American hopes of limiting the Asian drug trade were thwarted by civil war in China. Finally, as the Cold War spread to Southeast Asia in the 1950s, drug control was subordinated to Western security concerns in the fight against communism.
Basing his study upon extensive archival research in British and American sources, Walker shows that the chances for opium control were never good and that ultimately the search for order in Asia on Western terms failed. United States drug-control officials, Walker contends, must share in the blame for that failure.
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