Opium’S Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt To Global Drug Control

In 1920 the League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs captured 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.

• | Author: Steffen Rimner
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 12, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674976304
• | ISBN-13: 9780674976306