Opium, the United States, and the Civilizing Mission in Colonial Southeast Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12970782 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne L Foster (0000-0003-1362-0068, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-19 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Social History of Alcohol Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-2783 • E-ISSN: 2640-7329 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/shad24010006 |
| OpenAlex | W2898252934 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
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 struggled to justify the sale of opium to colonized peoples. The United States entered the region as a colonial power at the height of these debates. This article argues that US permitted legal opium sales, and opium policy developed in the context of this regional debate about proper colonial governance. By 1908, the United States had fully adopted a prohibitionist policy, and thereafter promoted prohibition as the only policy compatible with the civilizing mission
Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Economic history · Economics · Ethnology · Management · Opium · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Southeast asia · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |