Opium played a critical and contradictory role in the rhetoric and practice of the civilizing
mission in colonial Southeast Asia at the turn civilizing projects, while colonial governments …

A history of opium's dramatic fall from favor in colonial Southeast Asia During the late
nineteenth century, opium was integral to European colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The …

The article compares attitudes towards and laws regulating the use of alcohol and opium in
the United States (US) colonial possession of the Philippines. Forces within the United …

America's current" war on drugs" is not the nation's first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-
smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West …

This article builds on two absences, both of them near-total. The first is beginning to be filled,
as the other essays in this collection demonstrate, and that is the absence of a comparative …

Given our current preoccupation with conducting a war on drugs, we run the danger of
forgetting that, once upon a time, the sale of opium was widely condoned and, in some …

It is generally recognized that opium was vital for sustaining the British Empire throughout
the nineteenth century. During the latter half of the eighteenth century, and most of the …

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 …

While establishing a framework for colonial governance in the Philippines, American
policymakers had to confront the issue of opium smoking, which was especially popular …

A social problem in one country may often be held up as an example to others, but it is rare
for it to bring forth an internationally coordinated response with a world-wide application …