Opium in the Balkans

Vladan Jovanovic

Opium in the Balkans

Cultivation, Processing, and Trade during the Interwar Period

This book focuses on the cultivation, production, and trafficking of Macedonian raw opium, tracing and contextualizing both the licit and the illicit processing and trade of opium alkaloids from the Western Balkans through Turkey, and to the rest of the world between the two World Wars. He explores this both from the angle of the League of Nations and politicians and diplomats, and by analyzing of the activities of smugglers, police, and ordinary people who participated in its production and distribution. He describes the process of relocating the illegal processing industry from Turkey and Bulgaria to Yugoslavia. He shows the implicit continuity of relations between the former Ottoman Empire and the newly constituted Yugoslav state in the form of bilateral political agreements. He pays special attention to the illegal activities within the legal pharmaceutical industry and exposes the role of criminal networks, which he situates in political and social context.
Author

Vladan Jovanovic

Vladan Jovanovic is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia in Belgrade. His primary research focuses on the integration of the formerly Ottoman territories of Macedonia and Kosovo into Serbia and Yugoslavia. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Tokovi istorije/Currents of History, an academic journal.
Title
Opium in the Balkans
Subtitle
Cultivation, Processing, and Trade during the Interwar Period
Author
Price
€ 141,00 excl. VAT
ISBN
9789633867877
Format
Hardback
Number of pages
338
Language
English
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Dimensions
15.6 x 23.4 cm
Series
Critical Approaches to Southeast Europe: A Cross-Disciplinary Series - CEU Press
Categories
Eastern Central Europe
Economics and Economic History
International Relations
Legal Studies
Sociology and Social History
Discipline
Social and Political Sciences
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Table of Contents
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PREFACE
Chapter 1 - EUPHORIA, PROFIT, STIGMA
Chapter 2 - ESTABLISHING CONTROL
Chapter 3 - MACEDONIAN OPIUM
Chapter 4 - YUGOSLAV-TURKISH EXPORT (CO)OPERATION
Chapter 5 - BALKAN SMUGGLING NETWORKS: THE CASE OF BULGARIA
Chapter 6 - YUGOSLAVIA BECOMES THE EPICENTER
CONCLUSIONS
SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX