TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tagliacozzo, Eric
TI  - Secret trades, porous borders: smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915 
SN  - 9780300143300
U1  - 364.133 TAG-E 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - British colonies
KW  - Smuggling
KW  - Counterfeits and counterfeiting
KW  - Drug traffic
KW  - Illegal arms transfers
KW  - Netherlandish colonies
KW  - Boundaries
N1  - Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency runners, and human traffickers who pierced such newly drawn borders with growing success. The book presents a history of the evolution of this 3000-km frontier, and then inquires into the smuggling of contraband: who smuggled and why, what routes were favored, and how effectively the British and Dutch were able to enforce their economic, moral, and political will. Examining the history of states and smugglers playing off one another within a hidden but powerful economy of forbidden cargoes, the book also offers new insights into the modern political economies of Southeast Asia
ER  -