| Description |
1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Asia--local studies/global themes ; 29
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Asia--local studies/global themes ; 29.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Moral crusade in Meiji Japan -- Drug users in the epicenter of consumption -- Cultural producers and the Japanese empire -- Cultural producers and Manchukuo -- Merchants -- Law enforcement -- Laboratory scientists -- Medical doctors -- Moral panic in postwar Japan. |
| Summary |
This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations and empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Japan underwent three distinct crises of sovereignty in its modern history: in the 1890s, during the interwar period, and in the 1950s. Each crisis provoked successively escalating crusades against opium and other drugs, in which moral entrepreneurs--bureaucrats, cultural producers, merchants, law enforcement, scientists, and doctors, among others--focused on drug use as a means of distinguishi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Drug abuse -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History.
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Drug abuse -- Social aspects. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
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Drug traffic -- Japan -- History.
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Drug traffic. |
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Japan -- Civilization -- 1868-
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
1868- |
| Subject |
Japan -- Moral conditions.
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Moral conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1868 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kingsberg, Miriam, 1981- Moral nation : modern Japan and narcotics in global history. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013] xvii, 304 pages : illustrations Asia : local studies/global themes ; 29 9780520276734 (DLC) 2013031720 |
| ISBN |
9780520957480 (e-book) |
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0520957482 (e-book) |
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1306133769 |
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9781306133760 |
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9780520276734 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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