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Imperial Intoxication

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Imperial Intoxication

By Gerard Sasges

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About the book

Making liquor isn't rocket science: some raw materials, a stove, and a few jury-rigged pots are all that's really needed. So when the colonial regime in turn-of-the-century French Indochina banned homemade rice liquor, replacing it with heavily taxed, tasteless alcohol from French-owned factories, widespread clandestine distilling was the inevitable result. The state's deeply unpopular alcohol monopoly required extensive systems of surveillance and interdiction and the creation of an unwieldy bu...Show more

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9780824881474

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University of Hawai'i Press

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2019

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