The opium debate and Chinese exclusion laws in the nineteenth-century American West
"The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West examines how the spread of opium-smoking and its culture fueled anti-Chinese propaganda and demands for the exclusion of the Chinese from American life. This meticulously researched study of the nineteenth-century American drug-abuse crisis reveals the ways moral crusaders linked their anti-opium rhetoric to already active demands for Chinese exclusion."--Jacket
xiii, 132 pages ; 25 cm
9780874176988, 9780874178449, 0874176980, 0874178444
71004058
Preface
The poppy problem comes to the West
Into the West's caves of oblivion
Threats to body and behavior
Excluding the dual dilemma
Smoking-opium's continued presence
Notes
Bibliography
Index