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Global Histories

Lucas Richert, Jim Mills

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MIT Press
19 October 2021

Political science & theory

Cannabis consumption, commerce, and control in global history, from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Cannabis consumption, commerce, and control in global history, from the nineteenth century to the present day.

This book gathers together authors from the new wave of cannabis histories that has emerged in recent decades. It offers case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. It does so to trace a global history of the plant and its preparations, arguing that Western colonialism shaped and disseminated ideas in the nineteenth century that came to drive the international control regimes of the twentieth.

More recently, the emergence of commercial interests in cannabis has been central to the challenges that have undermined that cannabis consensus. Throughout, the determination of people around the world to consume substances made from the plant has defied efforts to stamp them out and often transformed the politics and cultures of using them. These texts also suggest that globalization might have a cannabis history. The migration of consumers, the clandestine networks established to supply them, and international cooperation on control may have driven much of the interconnectedness that is a key feature of the contemporary world.

By: Lucas Richert, Jim Mills
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780262045209
ISBN 10: 0262045206
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 19 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lucas Richert is George Urdang Chair in the History of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His many publications include Break on Through- Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture (MIT Press). James H. Mills is Professor of Modern History at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Glasgow, University of Strathclyde. His publications include Cannabis Nation- Control and Consumption in Britain, 1928-2008.

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