Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910

by James R. Rush

Book Overview

Opium smoking was a widespread social custom in nineteenth-century Java, and commercial trade in opium had far-reaching economic and political implications. As in many of the Dutch territories in the Indonesian archipelago, the drug was imported from elsewhere and sold throughout the island under a government monopoly - a system of revenue "farms". These monopoly franchises were regulated by the government and operated by members of Java's Chinese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9793780495
• ISBN13: 9789793780498
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"