The peasant production of opium in Nineteenth-century India /:

"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 agains...

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1. Verfasser: Bauer, Rolf, 1984- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Schriftenreihe:Library of economic history ; v. 12.
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9004385185
9789004385184
ISSN:1877-3206 ;

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