Moral nation : modern Japan and narcotics in global history /
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...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013] |
| Series: | Asia--local studies/global themes ;
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of 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.