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smugglers, warlords, spies, and the history of the international drug trade

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An edition of Webs of Smoke (1998)

Webs of smoke

smugglers, warlords, spies, and the history of the international drug trade

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  • 2 Want to read

Tracing the rise of the modern traffic in narcotics, this pioneering history offers a unique account of the evolution in narcotics trafficking as drugs went from legal commodity to illicit substance. To flourish in the new order, traffickers needed political connections, and political connections were readily made in China's chaotic environment of civil war and imperial rivalry.

In a word, drug traffickers flourished because they were useful to various parties: warlords, organized criminals, Chiang Kaishek's Guomindang, Mao's communists, spies, and Japanese adventurers. The authors tell the interlocking stories of the many extraordinary personalities - sinister and otherwise - involved in narcotics trafficking.

Drawing on a rich store of U.S., British, European, Japanese, and Chinese archives, this unique study will be invaluable for all readers interested in the drug trade and contemporary East Asian history.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language
English
Pages
313

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Drug traffic History Drug control Opium trade
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Webs of Smoke: Smugglers, Warlords, Spies, and the History of the International Drug Trade
2002, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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Webs of Smoke: Smugglers, Warlords, Spies, and the History of the International Drug Trade (State and Society in East Asia)
November 28, 2002, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Webs of smoke: smugglers, warlords, spies, and the history of the international drug trade
1998, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-300) and index.
Series statement on jacket.

Published in
Lanham, Md
Series
[State and society in East Asia]

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
363.45/09
Library of Congress
HV5801 .M468 1998, HV5801.M45 1998, HV5801 .M45 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 313 p. :
Number of pages
313

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL363473M
Internet Archive
websofsmokesmugg0000meye
ISBN 10
0847690164, 0847690172
LCCN
98023716
OCLC/WorldCat
39093652
LibraryThing
1762703
Goodreads
3133515

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Work ID
OL1901224W

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