From Anatolia to Indonesia: Opium Trade and the Dutch Community of Izmir, 1820-1940

by Jan Schmidt

This book is the first monograph dealing with the opium trade undertaken by Dutchmen from Anatolia in the 19th and the early 20th centuries. The trade began to flower from the 1820s onwards when the Dutch government decided to commission the newly founded Dutch Trading Company with the exclusive sale of the drug on the East Indian market. Because of the large and growing consumption in the Indies, Holland became one of the biggest drug dealers that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9062580831
• ISBN13: 9789062580835
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 10.4"