Format:
XIII, 220 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9789004385177
Series Statement:
Library of economic history volume 12
Content:
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.
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite [205] - 215
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Mit Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004385184
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004385184
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Bauer, Rolf, 1984 - The peasant production of opium in nineteenth-century India Leiden : Brill, 2019 ISBN 9789004385184
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Economics
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Ethnology
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