Steffen Rimner

Opium's Long Shadow

From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1920 the League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs culminated eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking. Steffen Rimner shows how local protests crossed imperial, national, and colonial boundaries to harness naming and shaming in international politics¿a deterrent that continues today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 159mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 749g
• ISBN-13: 9780674976306
• ISBN-10: 0674976304
• Artikelnr.: 51969109

Autorenporträt

Steffen Rimner is Ad Astra Fellow and Assistant Professor in the History of International Affairs at University College Dublin. He has taught at Utrecht University, Harvard University, and Columbia University, and held affiliations at Yale University, the University of Oxford, Waseda University, and the University of Tokyo (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia).