Secret Trades, Porous Borders : Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915.

Cover -- Contents -- A Note on Orthography and Usage -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part One: Creating the Frontier: Border Formation and the State -- Section I: Building the Frontier: Drawing Lines in Physical Space -- 2 Mapping the Frontier -- 3 Enforcing the Frontier -- 4 Strengthening the Frontier -- Section II: Imagining the Frontier: State Visions of Danger Along the Border -- 5 The Specter of Violence -- 6 "Foreign Asians" on the Frontier -- 7 The Indigenous Threat -- Part Two: Crossing the Frontier: Smuggling, Pro.t, and Resistance -- Section III: Secret Trades, Porous Borders -- 8 The Smuggling of Narcotics -- 9 Counterfeiters Across the Frontier -- 10 Illicit Human Cargoes -- Section IV: The Illegal Weapons Trade Across the Anglo/Dutch Frontier -- 11 Munitions and Borders: Arms in Context -- 12 Praxis and Evasion: Arms in Motion -- Section V: A Frontier Story: The Sorrows of Golam Merican -- 13 Contraband and the Junk Kim Ban An -- 14 Worlds of Illegality, 1873-99 -- 15 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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