Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History Volume 29

by Miriam Kingsberg

This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations and empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Japan underwent three distinct crises of sovereignty in its modern history: in the 1890s, during the interwar period, and in the 1950s. Each crisis provoked successively escalating crusades against opium and other drugs, in which moral entrepreneurs--bureaucrats,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520276736
• ISBN13: 9780520276734
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"