Opium and Foreign Policy: The Anglo-American Search for Order in Asia, 1912-1954

by William O. Walker III

Book Overview

Throughout much of China and Southeast Asia, many farmers had cultivated opium for generations, and at times survival itself seemed to depend upon the market for the poppy crop. Before World War II, the British tolerated the deeply entrenched culture of the poppy in China in order to safeguard their economic and political interests. Conversely, the Americans, who had far less at stake in Asia strategically or economically, consistently opposed the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807856452
• ISBN13: 9780807856451
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"