“State of Intoxication:” Governing Alcohol and Disease in the Forests of British North Borneo

This article focuses on issues of alcohol consumption, disease and public health in British North Borneo in the 1920s and 1930s, a colonial territory along the periphery of empire. Drawing upon a range of sources – from reportage and memoranda, to local folk tales and oral tradition – it examines ho...

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Main Author: David Saunders
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2021-04-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
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Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3779/3655