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  title info:
    title: Opium's long shadow
    sub title: from Asian revolt to global drug control
  name:
    name part: Rimner, Steffen
    name part: 1983-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 373 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, created in 1920, reversed almost eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking, which was by far the largest state-backed drug trade in the age of empire. Opponents of opium had long struggled to rein in the profitable drug. Opium's Long Shadow shows how diverse local protests crossed imperial, national and colonial boundaries to gain traction globally and harness public opinion as a moral deterrent in international politics after World War I. Steffen Rimner traces the far-flung itineraries and trenchant arguments of reformers, significantly, feminists and journalists, who viewed opium addiction as a root cause of poverty, famine, "white slavery" and moral degradation. These activists targeted the international reputation of drug-trading governments, first and foremost Great Britain, British India and Japan, becoming pioneers of the global political tactic we today call naming and shaming. But rather than taking sole responsibility for their own behavior, states in turn appropriated anti-drug criticism to shame fellow sovereigns around the globe. Consequently, participation in drug control became a prerequisite for membership in the twentieth-century international community.
  table of contents: Thunders before the storm -- The porosity of international law -- Grounds of objection: India, America, Asia -- Britain's last defense: the anti-opium cause on trial -- The Japanese blueprint and its American discovery -- Activists into diplomats: toward the International Opium Commission -- The drugs of war: Germany, Japan, and the morphine threat -- Toward international accountability for transnational harm.
  note: Steffen Rimner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: League of Nations.
      name part: Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs.
  subject:
    topic: Opium trade
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Drug control
    topic: International cooperation
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Social reformers
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
  classification: HV5816 .R565 2018
  classification: 344.05/45
  identifier: 9780674976306
  identifier: 0674976304
  identifier: 2018012858
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180417
    record change date: 20190122121332.0
    record identifier: in00003993802