Table of Contents

Introduction; J.H.Mills & P. Barton PART 1: CONSUMPTION China, British imperialism and the myth of the 'Opium Plague'; F.Dikötter , L.Laamann & X.Zhou Developing Habits: Opium and Tobacco in the Indonesian Archipelago, c. 1619-c. 1794; G.B.Souza Early British encounters with the Indian opium eater; R.Newman 'Cannot we induce the people of England to eat opium?' The moral economy of opium in colonial India; J.F.Richards PART 2: CONTROL Opium and the Trading World of Western India in the Early Nineteenth Century; A.Farooqui Dangerous Drinks and the Colonial State: 'Illicit' Gin Prohibition and Control in Colonial Nigeria; C.J.Korieh Empire and Excise: Drugs and drink revenue and the fate of states in south Asia; M.J.Gilbert Powders, Potions and Tablets: The 'quinine fraud' in British India, 1890 to 1939; P.Barton PART 3: 'HIGH' POLITICS Colonial Africa and the international politics of cannabis: Egypt, South Africa and the origins of global control; J.H.Mills 'A grave danger to the peace of the East': Opium and Imperial Rivalry in China, 1895-1920; W.O.Walker III 'Wolf by the Ears': The Dilemmas of Imperial Opium Policymaking in the 20th Century; W.B.McAllister The Trade-Off: Chinese Opium Traders and Antebellum Reform in the United States, 1815-1860; K.Gray

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PATRICA BARTON Research Fellow at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, University of Strathclyde, UK FRANK DIKOTTER Professor of Modern Chinese History at SOAS, London, UK AMAR FAROOQUI Reader in History, Hans Raj College, University of Delhi, India MARC JASON GILBERT Professor in the Department of History, North Georgia College & State University, USA KELLY GRAY Assistant Professor of History at Towson State University, Maryland, USA CHIMA J. KORIEH Professor of African History in the Department of History of Rowan University, New Jersey, USA WILLIAM B. MCALLISTER Author of Drug Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century: An International History JAMES H. MILLS Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, University of Strathclyde, UK RICHARD NEWMAN Research Associate in the Department of History at SOAS, London, UK JOHN F. RICHARDS Professor in History, Duke University, USA GEORGE BRYAN SOUZA Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA WILLIAM O. WALKER III Professor of History and International Relations at the University of Toronto, Canada

About the Author

JAMES MILLS is Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, Glasgow, and ESRC Research Fellow/Senior Lecturer in History, University of Strathclyde, UK. His publications include Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism: The 'native-only' lunatic asylums of British India, 1857-1900 (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2000) and Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition 1800-1928 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005). PATRICIA BARTON is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, University of Strathclyde, UK. Her publicat