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Madat makan orang’; opium eats people: Opium addiction as a public health issue in late colonial Java, 1900–1940 / Wahid, Abdul

Wahid, Abdul	Journal Article
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By the 1890s the Dutch had noticed the escalation of opium addiction in colonial Indonesia. They believed that opium consumption had brought about health problems and other negative socioeconomic effects. Yet, the profitability of opium took precedence over its negative social effects in the Dutch East Indies government's policy, which until the end of the 1920s made almost no substantial efforts to address addiction. It was nongovernmental organisations which took the initiative to install medical facilities for addicts and launch diverse anti-opium campaigns. These organisations marked the rise of modern philanthropic activism in the field of public health as part of the flourishing sociopolitical movements of that time. They also represent the nascent civil society in late colonial Indonesia.

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Colonial Java ; 1900–1940 ; Madat Makan Orang ; Public Health Issue

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Small state? the size of the Netherlands as a focal point in foreign policy debates, 1900–1940 / Kruizinga, Samuël

Kruizinga, Samuël	Journal Article
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Do small states behave in an appreciably different fashion than their larger counterparts? Social scientists and historians have, for decades, searched for the defining features that set small states apart from larger ones and have come up empty. This analysis suggests that rather than searching for another set of membership criteria, focus should be on the explanatory power of the discourses surrounding the size of states. As this article demonstrates, based on a reading of Dutch international history from the late nineteenth century to the advent of the Second World War, the changing shape of discourses surrounding the “smallness” did historically influence foreign policy practices.

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Netherlands ; Small State ; Foreign Policy Debates ; 1900–1940

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