What We Are Reading Today: Empires of Vice by Diana S. Kim

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Thu, 2020-02-20 01:10

During the late 19th century, opium was integral to European colonial rule in Southeast Asia. 

The taxation of opium was a major source of revenue for British and French colonizers, who also derived moral authority from imposing a tax on a peculiar vice of their non-European subjects. 

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