The Drug Trade

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ID23447927
AuthorsPaul Knepper (0000-0002-6329-9666, University of Sheffield, corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages114-139
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueInternational Crime in the 20th Century (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230342521_6
OpenAlexW2492514494
ISBN9780230342521
LanguageEN
References cited21

In 1932, the ocean liner MS Georges Philippar caught fire and sank on a return voyage to France from China. The cause of the fire never rose beyond the level of speculation, and some suspected it had been deliberately set to murder a French journalist who was aboard. Before he died in the fire, Albert Londres achieved acclaim for enquiries into abuses in French colonies and other issues. As an investigator for the League of Nations, he tracked the routes of prostitutes being taken from Europe to South Africa. His account, Le Chemin de Buenos Aires (The Road to Buenos Aires), brought the narrative drama of a novel to documentary reporting, and stirred public reaction across the European capitals. Londres had boarded the ship at Shanghai, along with a portmanteau of material he had collected about the drug trade. He was about to expose those responsible for the international drug trade in the same way he had the white slave traffic.1

Archaeology · Art · Cartography · China · Drama · Economic history · Geography · Literature · Narrative · Visual arts · White (mutation) · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Race, History, and American Society

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