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Part I: The Nineteenth Century
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Introduction
Web-based course discussion topic: What is addiction?
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Week 2
The Opium Poppy |
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Booth, pp. 1-34; 81-101;
Trocki, pp. 13-32.
Opium for the Masses -- Pablo Bartholomew
Web discussion: Discuss the four-part classification of drug use listed in Trocki, p. 13. This typology is based upon studies of "pre-modern peoples". Does it still apply today?
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Week 3
Mughal India and Opium |
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Trocki, 33-57.
Early Modern India and World History -- John F. Richards, Journal of World History, vol. 8, (1997) 197-209.
Web discussion: What is the meaning of the term "modern"?
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Week 4
The Opium Monopoly in British India
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Trocki, 58-87.
Web discussion: How can we best define the terms "smuggling", "contraband" and "black market"?
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Week 5
Qing China and Opium |
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Trocki, 88-108;
Bloom, 103-124
Opium Smoking in Ch'ing China -- Johnathan Spence. In F. Wakeman and C. Grant (Eds.) Conflict and Control in Late Imperial China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975) pp. 143-173.
Web discussion: Does oversupply of opium in a market, if maintained, produce demand equal to the oversupply? Do addictive substances behave differently than other commodities in a market context?
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Week 6
The First Opium War |
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The Canton Trade and the Opium War -- Frederic Wakeman, Jr. In Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank, The Cambridge History of China (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,1978) v. 10, pp. 163-212.
Web discussion: Was opium really the reason for the war between Britain and China?
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Week 7
Discussion: Film and National Identity
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"The Opium War" Directed by Xie Jin (1997)
Web discussion: How is national identity constructed and maintained?
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Week 8
Hong Kong and the Second Opium War |
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The Creation of the Treaty System -- John K. Fairbank. In The Cambridge History of China, v. 10, pp. 213-263.
Web discussion: Why is the issue of extraterritoriality so fraught with emotion and tension?
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Week 9
The Chinese Diaspora: Coolies, Traders and Opium Pipes
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Opium Smoking in Late Imperial China: A Reconsideration -- R. K. Newman. Modern Asian Studies, v. 29 (1995) pp. 765-794.
Web discussion: Is assimilation necessary and desirable for immigrant ethnic communities?
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Week 10
Opium Production, Export and Consumption in the Middle East, 1800 -1914
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Expansion of Opium Production in Turkey and the State Monopoly of 1828-1839 -- Ibrahim Ihsan Poroy, International Journal of Middle East Studies, v. 13 (1981) pp. 191-211.
Web discussion: Has opium production and consumption been characteristic of Islamic societies in the Middle East?
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Week 11
Opium Revenues and the Indian Empire |
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Bloom, pp. 139-173
The Indian Empire and Peasant Production of Opium -- J. F. Richards, Modern Asian Studies v. 15 (1981) pp. 59-82.
Web Discussion: Is state intervention and monopoly control essential for the long-term, successful marketing of an agricultural product exported to a world market?
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Week 12
Empire and Opium in British Malaysia and Dutch Indonesia
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Trocki, pp. 137-159.
Opium in Java: A Sinister Friend -- James Rush, Journal of Asian Studies, v. 44 (1985) pp. 549-560.
Web discussion: Did opium consumption help to create a passive, supine, colonial subject population in Java?
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Week 13
Empire and Opium in French Indo-China
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"Indochine" Directed by Regis Wargnier, (Sony Pictures, 1993).
Web discussion: What was the link between opium smoking and French colonialists portrayed in the film? Did this seem a credible connection?
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Week 14
Opium Consumption in Western Europe and North America
Literary Expressions of Addiction
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Booth, pp. 35-79.
Web discussion: How significant were gender roles in determining consumption of opium? In Europe and North America? In Asia?
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Week 15
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Mid-term Examination
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Part II: The Twentieth Century
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Week 16
International Conferences and Anti-Opium Agreements
Ending Indian Exports
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Trocki, pp. 160-178.
India and the Anglo-Chinese Opium Agreements, 1907-1914 -- R. K. Newman, Modern Asian Studies, v. 23 (1989) pp. 525-560.
Web discussion: Why did the anti-opium reform movement prevail?
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Week 17
The Japanese Empire: Opium, Morphine and Heroin |
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Meyer and Parssinen, pp. 89-115.
The Forgotten Plague: Opium and Narcotics in Korea Under Japanese Rule, 1910-1945 -- John M. Jennings, Modern Asian Studies v. 29 (1995), pp. 795-815.
Web discussion: Did Japanese imperial policies in regard to opium and its derivatives differ from those of the European colonial empires?
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Week 18
Shanghai and the Green Gang
Warlords and Opium in Republican China
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Meyer and Parssinen, pp. 37-65; 141-173
Web discussion: What were the manifestations of "gangsterism" displayed in Shanghai during the interwar period?
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Week 19
The Criminalization of Opium, Heroin and Morphine in the United States
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Meyer and Parssinen, pp. 235-266.
Jonnes, pp. 15-115.
Web discussion: Did this transition rest solely upon American racism?
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Week 20
The League of Nations, Colonial Monopolies and Criminalization of the Drug Trade
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Meyer and Parssinen, pp. 15-35; 67-88; 117-139. |
Week 21
World War Two, Decolonization in Asia and the United Nations |
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Meyer and Parssinen, pp. 199-233; 267-276.
Booth, pp. 175-190
Web discussion: Why were Asian nationalist, revolutionary movements so vehemently opposed to opium, heroin and morphine?
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Week 22
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Discussion with Carl Trocki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia via video conference.
Draft of Research Paper Due.
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Week 23
Heroin in the United States |
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Jonnes, pp. 119-201.
Video viewing: "The French Connection", Directed by William Friedkin (Twentieth-Century Fox, 1971
Web discussion: If heroin addiction remained concentrated within a relatively small deviant subculture in the United States, why was it regarded as dangerous by the majority?
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Week 24
The Golden Triangle: Myanmar, Thailand and Laos |
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Booth, pp. 255-291.
Video viewing: "The Heroin Wars Filmed Over Thirty Years, 1965-1996", Directed by Adrian Cowell,
(Bullfrog Films, 3 videocasettes, 1996).
Video 1 "The Opium Convoys",
Video 2 "Smack City".,
Video 3 "The Kings of Opium".
(Each cassette 60 mins.)
Web Discussion: How strong is the link between ethnic identity and opium production in the Golden Triangle?
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Week 25
The French and American Wars in Vietnam
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Jonnes, pp.205-299.
Web discussion: Are soldiers especially vulnerable to drug addiction?
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Week 26
Discussion: Heroin from South Asia; New Patterns in International Distribution
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Video Viewing: "Traffik", Directed by Alastair Reid. (PBS Home Video, 1992). Three videocassettes.
Web discussion: What do Afghan and Pakistani opium growers have in common with the hill growers of Southeast Asia?
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Week 27
Heroin, Cocaine and the American War on Drugs
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Jonnes, pp.303-412
Web discussion: What are the similarities and differences between cocaine and heroin as addictive drugs?
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Week 28
The World Drug Economy and Drug Culture |
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Booth, pp. 293-353.
Jonnes, 413-444.
Web discussion: Discuss alternatives to the American drug war such as policies and practices in Canada, Holland and other Western European Countries.
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