The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History

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Paul Gootenberg (SUNY Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology, SUNY Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology, Stony Brook University)

The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History

Paul Gootenberg (SUNY Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology, SUNY Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology, Stony Brook University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
14 June 2022

Social & cultural history; Colonialism & imperialism; History of medicine; Psychopharmacology; History of science

Series: Oxford Handbooks

Drugs and their illicit use have long fascinated writers and the public at large. Informed by new interdisciplinary perspectives, a growing number of academically trained historians are now approaching drugs as a wide-open topic for serious research. This Handbook of Global Drug History is the first major attempt by historians of drugs to take stock of the recent progress and directions of this field, utilizing both a global scope and long-term historical perspective. Thirty-five original essays simultaneously survey what is known historically about drugs across the world (in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa) as well as illustrating their historical interconnections. The use of drugs in human culture goes back millennia with as many unique histories as cultures in which drugs were used. In the early modern world, human relationships with drugs changed, and drugs connected societies through transnational trade. In the nineteenth century, these diverse histories converge in defining the modern

By: Paul Gootenberg (SUNY Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology SUNY Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology Stony Brook University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 185mm, Width: 239mm, Spine: 58mm
Weight: 1.270kg
ISBN: 9780190842642
ISBN 10: 0190842644
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 720
Publication Date: 14 June 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Gootenberg is a Latin Americanist and commodity studies specialist and a pioneer in the field of global drug history. He is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology at Stony Brook University in New York and Chair of the Department of History. His books include Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug, and he is the editor of Cocaine: Global Histories and, with Liliana M. Dávalos, The Origins of Cocaine: Peasant Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes. He has also published extensively on the economic and social history of nineteenth-century Peru.

Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History

This is a serious collection that does not mind taking a few odd turns, as you would expect in a history of mind-altering substances. * Dave Hazzan, BC Studies Book Reviews * Paul Gootenberg's introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History sets out to take stock of what is known of the history of illicit drugs and of the field of drug history. This task is amply completed in the thirty-five comprehensive and informative chapters that follow. Each contributor expertly situates drug history and historiography within broader social, economic, and political contexts. * Isis, volume 114 *