Description A history of opium\'s dramatic fall from favor in colonial Southeast Asia During the late nineteenth century, Opium was integral to European colonial rule in Southeast Asia.
Yet between the 1890s and the 1940s, colonial states began to ban opium, upsetting the ve.
The taxation of Opium was a major source of revenue for British and French colonizers, who also derived moral authority from imposing a tax on a peculiar vice of their non-European subjects.
Description A history of opium\'s dramatic fall from favor in colonial Southeast Asia During the late nineteenth century, Opium was integral to European colonial rule in Southeast Asia