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Opium to Java

Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia 1860-1910

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James R. Rush explains the workings of the opium farm system by measuring the social, economic, and political reach of the opium monopolies within the Dutch-dominated colonial society. Tracing the development and decay of the opium "farm," Rush offers new perspectives on the colonial state that emerged in Indonesia in the early twentieth century, when Holland increasingly subordinated its colonial subjects to bureaucracies of a modern kind.

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Opium to Java, James Robert Rush

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1990
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Title
Opium to Java
Subtitle
Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia 1860-1910
Language
English
Publisher
NCROL
Released
1990
Format
Hardcover
Pages
281
ISBN10
0801422183
ISBN13
9780801422188
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James R. Rush explains the workings of the opium farm system by measuring the social, economic, and political reach of the opium monopolies within the Dutch-dominated colonial society. Tracing the development and decay of the opium "farm," Rush offers new perspectives on the colonial state that emerged in Indonesia in the early twentieth century, when Holland increasingly subordinated its colonial subjects to bureaucracies of a modern kind.