Ledges State Park, 1925.

This booklet, no. 1 in the Park Booklet Series, contains general information, features, history, geology and photos of Ledges State Park.

Arrêté portant règlement général pour la culture du tabac en 1860. (12 décembre 1859.)

[Acte. 1859-12-12]

Arrêté portant règlement général pour la culture du tabac en 1861. (21 décembre 1860.)

[Acte. 1860-12-21]

The 1925 Opium Purchasing Campaign in Laos: The Anatomy of a Colonial Scandal

Opium purchasing campaigns, initiated in 1915, were abruptly interrupted ten years later following the discovery that the Douanes & Régies of the General Government of Indochina had been victim of a gigantic fraud. Various inquiries expedited with a view to establishing responsibility for the fiasco, involving purchases made at Luang Prabang in 1925, highlight the dysfunctions affecting the colonial civil service. The 1925 scandal revealed not only the difficulties encountered by the French in their attempts to control the drug trade, but also the prevailing circumstantial inefficiency of the colonial bureaucracy.

Estímulos y obstáculos al avance de la propiedad campesina (el baix Empordà, 1860-1940)

The aim of this article is to think about the expansion in peasant property detectable from the end of nineteeth to the middle of twenteeth centuries. The research is centred around one particular Catalan region, the Baix Empordà. The main parts of the process were the break-up and, the sale of old estates, as well as its purchase —fragmented— by peasant sectors. Some explanatory elements are set, both related to the behaviour of landed sectors, and to the means that make possible the expansion of a significant group of peasant properties