ISBN:
9789004385177
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 220 Seiten
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Series Statement:
Library of economic history volume 12
Series Statement:
Library of economic history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bauer, Rolf, 1984 - The peasant production of opium in nineteenth-century India
DDC:
338.1/7375095409034
Keywords:
Opiate
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Drogenwirtschaft
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Kolonialismus
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Geschichte
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Indien
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Opium trade History 19th century
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Peasants Economic conditions 19th century
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Forced labor History 19th century
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Power (Social sciences) History 19th century
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India Economic conditions 19th century
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India History British occupation, 1765-1947
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Great Britain Colonies
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Economic conditions
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Great Britain Colonies
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Economic policy
Abstract:
The creation of a system -- The functioning of a system -- A local-level analysis of an opium district : Saran -- The costs and benefits of poppy cultivation -- The mechanics of a system : incentives, coercion and dependence.
Abstract:
"The Peasant Production of Opium in 19th Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf Bauer not only shows that the peasants cultivated poppy against a substantial loss but he also reveals how they were coerced into the production of this drug. By dissecting the economic and social power relations on a local level, this study explains how a triangle of debt, the colonial state's power and social dependencies in the village formed the coercive mechanisms that transformed the peasants into opium producers. The result is a book that adds to our understanding of peasant economies in a colonial context"--
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