James H Mills
Biographic Data
| ID | 254046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James H Mills |
| GIVEN NAMES | James H |
| FAMILY NAME | Mills |
| SIGNATURE | MILLS J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9384-2087 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Selling Cocaine in Colonial India: Industry, Commerce and Capitalism, 1885 to 1911
This paper will trace the arrival of cocaine in colonial South Asia between 1885 and 1911. It argues that across that period two separate and distinct markets developed, one after the other. The first was a straightforward medical market, the second a more complex one, where the substance was made available beyond anything that resembled a formal medical context, to consumers who had uses for it other than the strictly therapeutic. This market ha…
Overdose prevention behaviors among people who inject drugs in rural Appalachia: A qualitative study
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) in rural Appalachia experience disproportionately high overdose mortality yet actively engage in overdose prevention behaviors (OPBs) as acts of self-protection and resilience. This study examined how PWID in rural South-Central Appalachia describe and practice overdose prevention within their local risk environments.Methods From October 2022 to January 2023, semi-structured interviews were conducted with…
Industrial intelligence, reparations, and German expertise: The Australian Scientific and Technical Mission to Germany, 1945-1950
Among the multiplicity of missions that the Allied governments and armed forces sent to Europe towards the end and after World War II to document and exploit Nazi Germany’s wartime scientific and industrial progress was the Australian Scientific and Technical Mission to Germany. Composed of less than a dozen personnel, the Mission was a modest but important component in the Australian Commonwealth Government’s post-war foreign policy towards Germ…
Colonialism, Consumption, ControlDrugs in Modern Asia
This chapter explores the recent wave of revisionist research on the consumption and control of drugs in Asia from the nineteenth century onward. Examples from China, India, and across Southeast Asia suggest that familiar Asian drug narratives were often based on colonial-era racial or nationalist stereotypes. Monolithic actors such as the “Chinese government,” “British imperialists,” “Japanese invaders,” or “Indian princes” dissolve in the compl…
Cannabis: Global Histories
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 n…
From “Papaber Errat” to “Tincture of Opium”: Poppies, Opiates, and Pain in Early Modern Scotland (ca. 1664–1785)
This article will focus on the uses of opiates in early-modern Scotland in an effort to trace the surprisingly neglected story of just how poppy-based substances were used in this period across the British Isles. It explores their history in medical practices there, examining sources as varied as household recipes, apothecaries' invoices, and the family correspondence of surgeons alongside the medical treatises and publications of the seventeenth…
Patients, carers and consumers: Agency and the history of pharmaceuticals
Colonizing Cannabis: Medication, Taxation, Intoxication, and Oblivion, c. 1839–1955
This chapter looks at cannabis products and their history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In part this story is about the entry of preparations of the plant into Western medical knowledge and practice. However, the chapter also demonstrates that cannabis was not simply constructed as a medicine in Western circles in this period. The ways in which competing understandings emerged of the plant and the substances that could be manufacture…
Decolonising drugs in Asia: The case of cocaine in colonial India
This article examines a drugs trade in Asia that has been largely forgotten by historians and policy-makers, that in cocaine. It will briefly trace some of the contours of this commerce and the efforts to control it. It will also assess how successful these efforts were. The article is designed to contribute fresh perspectives on recent controversies in the historiography of drugs in Asia to argue that the agendas and agency of consumers are cent…
Demons: Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco and drugs
Demons: our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco and drugs." Contemporary British History, 30(4), pp. 607–608
Cocaine and the British Empire: The Drug and the Diplomats at the Hague Opium Conference, 1911–12
This article will consider the reasons for the inclusion of cocaine in the Hague Opium Convention of 1912. This was the first time that the emerging international drugs regulatory system considered substances other than opiates and it was British delegates who took the initiative to include cocaine in discussions and in the final version of the agreement. Historians have tended to keep brief their accounts of this episode, seeing the British agen…
Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora
The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are considered. Contemporary issues such as the impact of the professional league in India and the role of UK Asians in the organization of the Indian game are considered. Future scenarios are explored and models for progression and problems facing the sport in south Asia are outlined
Howard Markel. An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine . New York: Vintage Books, 2012
Subaltern Sports: Politics and Sport in South Asia
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‘Cannabis was spreading to white people’: New Consumers, New Controls, 1962–1971
Chapter 6 begins to assess the events of the last half-century in the UK as markets in the country for cannabis became larger and more complex and control mechanisms expanded and attracted ever greater time and resources. Stories from the 1960s are familiar and this chapter seeks to get behind the headlines to examine exactly what was significant about the decade. It explores just how far the drug was adopted by the country's youth outside of Lon…
‘The prevalence of hashish smoking among the coloured men’: 1 Migration, Communism, and Crime, 1945–1962
Chapter 4 explores the years between 1945 and 1962, in order to look at the dynamics of a period in which a permanent domestic market for the drug was established in Britain. Migrant workers arriving from the colonies introduced cannabis to the more curious members of the UK's population who took to experimenting with various aspects of the newcomers' lifestyles. The less curious and more reactionary met the migrants with racism and rejection. Di…
Cannabis Nation: Control and Consumption in Britain, 1928-2008
"Cannabis has never been a more controversial substance in Britain. Over the last decade it has been reclassified twice, has been the subject of a range of official investigations and scientific studies, and has provoked media campaigns and all manner of political gesturing. Cannabis Nation seeks to understand this period by placing it back into the historical context of the long-term story of cannabis and the British. It takes up where its prede…
Howard Padwa, Social Poison: The Culture and Politics of Opiate Control in Britain and France, 1821-1926
Howard Padwa's Social Poison is a useful addition to existing work on the topic. It sits alongside the work of those who have located ideas about drugs in wider cultural discourses and social anxieties. His particular twist on this approach is to identify ideas about ‘nation’ as driving concerns about opium and its consumers, and he draws a comparison between France and Britain in order to do this. The structure of the book is chronological in ba…
Colonialismo, Cristãos E Esporte: A Igreja Católica E O Futebol Em Goa, 1883-1951
The chapter uses the development of football in Goa, the Portuguese colony in India until 1961, as a case study with which to critique existing histories of sport and colonialism. The start point of the article is that when taken together existing studies of football in particular, and to an extent sport in general, in colonial contexts bear a range of similarities. Broadly speaking a model can be drawn from them, one in which Christian missionar…
Drugs, Consumption, and Supply in Asia: The Case of Cocaine in Colonial India, c. 1900–c. 1930
This article examines the market for cocaine in India during the early twentieth century and the efforts of the colonial state to control it. The British authorities issued regulations to prohibit the drug's use as early as 1900, and yet by the start of World War I, cocaine's appeal had become socially diverse and geographically wide. This account of a significant market for a powerful new drug suggests that Indian society was able to rapidly dev…
Colonialism, Cannabis and the Christians: Mission Medical Knowledge and the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission of 1893–4
The pursuit of pleasure: Drugs and stimulants in Iranian history, 1500-1900 - Rudi Matthee
Manipur Rules Here: Gender, Politics, and Sport in an Asian Border Zone
This article looks at women's football in India and in particular at the dominance of the Manipuri women's team. It argues that its success has origins in both the region's history and its recent politics. Manipur, a troubled buffer zone between Indian and Burma, has a gender politics rare for south Asia. Women have traditionally held important positions in the religious rituals of the region, among which are dance and sporting practices in which…
Morality, Society and the Science of Intoxication: A response to David Courtwright’s “Mr. Atod’s Wild Ride: What Do Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Have in Common?”
Cannabis in the Commons: Colonial Networks, Missionary Politics and the origins of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-4
Cannabis in the Commons: Colonial Networks, Missionary Politics and the Origins of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893–4 James H. Mills In 1893 the Secretary of State for India revealed in the House of Commons that he had ordered the Government of India to conduct a wide-ranging inquiry into the issue of cannabis use in south Asian society.[1] In doing so he anticipated the establishment of the Royal Commission on Opium by three months, althoug…
A historiography of South Asian sport1
Despite the ongoing development of South Asian Studies over the past 25 years that has created a range of specialities such as the history of the environment, the anthropology and history of medicine, the sociology of the family and gender, etc., the history and sociology of sports in South Asia have lacked a focused academic approach. Nevertheless, there have been a number of studies and publications on the subject of sport in South Asia, and th…
Drugs, Consumption, and Supply in Asia: The Case of Cocaine in Colonial India, c. 1900–c. 1930
This article examines the market for cocaine in India during the early twentieth century and the efforts of the colonial state to control it. The British authorities issued regulations to prohibit the drug's use as early as 1900, and yet by the start of World War I, cocaine's appeal had become socially diverse and geographically wide. This account of a significant market for a powerful new drug suggests that Indian society was able to rapidly dev…
Re-forming the Indian: Treatment regimes in the lunatic asylums of British India, 1857-1880
Cocaine and the British Empire: The Drug and the Diplomats at the Hague Opium Conference, 1911–12
This article will consider the reasons for the inclusion of cocaine in the Hague Opium Convention of 1912. This was the first time that the emerging international drugs regulatory system considered substances other than opiates and it was British delegates who took the initiative to include cocaine in discussions and in the final version of the agreement. Historians have tended to keep brief their accounts of this episode, seeing the British agen…
Introduction: Empire, Nation, Diaspora
Manipur Rules Here: Gender, Politics, and Sport in an Asian Border Zone
This article looks at women's football in India and in particular at the dominance of the Manipuri women's team. It argues that its success has origins in both the region's history and its recent politics. Manipur, a troubled buffer zone between Indian and Burma, has a gender politics rare for south Asia. Women have traditionally held important positions in the religious rituals of the region, among which are dance and sporting practices in which…
Football in Goa: Sport, Politics and the Portuguese in India
(2001). Football in Goa: Sport, Politics and the Portuguese in India. Soccer & Society: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 75-88
Decolonising drugs in Asia: The case of cocaine in colonial India
This article examines a drugs trade in Asia that has been largely forgotten by historians and policy-makers, that in cocaine. It will briefly trace some of the contours of this commerce and the efforts to control it. It will also assess how successful these efforts were. The article is designed to contribute fresh perspectives on recent controversies in the historiography of drugs in Asia to argue that the agendas and agency of consumers are cent…
Morality, Society and the Science of Intoxication: A response to David Courtwright’s “Mr. Atod’s Wild Ride: What Do Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Have in Common?”
Cannabis in the Commons: Colonial Networks, Missionary Politics and the origins of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-4
Cannabis in the Commons: Colonial Networks, Missionary Politics and the Origins of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893–4 James H. Mills In 1893 the Secretary of State for India revealed in the House of Commons that he had ordered the Government of India to conduct a wide-ranging inquiry into the issue of cannabis use in south Asian society.[1] In doing so he anticipated the establishment of the Royal Commission on Opium by three months, althoug…
A Fugue in Cycles and Bels
Re-forming the Indian: Treatment regimes in the lunatic asylums of British India, 1857-1880
The Mad and the Past: Retrospective Diagnosis, Post-Coloniality, Discourse Analysis and the Asylum Archive
The history of modern psychiatry in India, 1858-1947
This article presents an introduction to the history of Indian psychiatry. It suggests that this history can be divided into four main periods, 1795 to 1857, 1858 to 1914, 1914 to 1947 and 1947 to the present day. The focus of the piece is on the periods 1858-1914 and 1914-1947, as it traces the main trends and developments of the colonial era and argues that the foundations of modern psychiatry in India were laid down in the period of British ru…
Football in Goa: Sport, Politics and the Portuguese in India
(2001). Football in Goa: Sport, Politics and the Portuguese in India. Soccer & Society: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 75-88
Conclusion: Soccer in South Asia - Past, Present and Future
A historiography of South Asian sport1
Despite the ongoing development of South Asian Studies over the past 25 years that has created a range of specialities such as the history of the environment, the anthropology and history of medicine, the sociology of the family and gender, etc., the history and sociology of sports in South Asia have lacked a focused academic approach. Nevertheless, there have been a number of studies and publications on the subject of sport in South Asia, and th…
Introduction: Empire, Nation, Diaspora
Psychoanalysis in colonial India
Cannabis in Colonial India: Production, State Intervention, and Resistance in the Late Nineteenth-Century Bengali Landscape
When approaching the subject of rural producers and their environments in nineteenth-century India, it is necessary to be mindful of the range of studies during the last 30 years or so that have emphasised the importance of resistance to colonial projects. These studies, most notably those published in the Subaltern Studies project (Guha 1982), have focused on the strategies and agendas of peasants in South Asia and have emphasized their importan…
Morality, Society and the Science of Intoxication: A response to David Courtwright’s “Mr. Atod’s Wild Ride: What Do Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Have in Common?”
Cannabis in the Commons: Colonial Networks, Missionary Politics and the origins of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-4
Cannabis in the Commons: Colonial Networks, Missionary Politics and the Origins of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893–4 James H. Mills In 1893 the Secretary of State for India revealed in the House of Commons that he had ordered the Government of India to conduct a wide-ranging inquiry into the issue of cannabis use in south Asian society.[1] In doing so he anticipated the establishment of the Royal Commission on Opium by three months, althoug…
Madness in Australia: Histories, heritage and the asylum
Colonialism, Cannabis and the Christians: Mission Medical Knowledge and the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission of 1893–4
The pursuit of pleasure: Drugs and stimulants in Iranian history, 1500-1900 - Rudi Matthee
Manipur Rules Here: Gender, Politics, and Sport in an Asian Border Zone
This article looks at women's football in India and in particular at the dominance of the Manipuri women's team. It argues that its success has origins in both the region's history and its recent politics. Manipur, a troubled buffer zone between Indian and Burma, has a gender politics rare for south Asia. Women have traditionally held important positions in the religious rituals of the region, among which are dance and sporting practices in which…
Drugs, Consumption, and Supply in Asia: The Case of Cocaine in Colonial India, c. 1900–c. 1930
This article examines the market for cocaine in India during the early twentieth century and the efforts of the colonial state to control it. The British authorities issued regulations to prohibit the drug's use as early as 1900, and yet by the start of World War I, cocaine's appeal had become socially diverse and geographically wide. This account of a significant market for a powerful new drug suggests that Indian society was able to rapidly dev…
Subaltern Sports: Politics and Sport in South Asia
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‘Cannabis was spreading to white people’: New Consumers, New Controls, 1962–1971
Chapter 6 begins to assess the events of the last half-century in the UK as markets in the country for cannabis became larger and more complex and control mechanisms expanded and attracted ever greater time and resources. Stories from the 1960s are familiar and this chapter seeks to get behind the headlines to examine exactly what was significant about the decade. It explores just how far the drug was adopted by the country's youth outside of Lon…
‘The prevalence of hashish smoking among the coloured men’: 1 Migration, Communism, and Crime, 1945–1962
Chapter 4 explores the years between 1945 and 1962, in order to look at the dynamics of a period in which a permanent domestic market for the drug was established in Britain. Migrant workers arriving from the colonies introduced cannabis to the more curious members of the UK's population who took to experimenting with various aspects of the newcomers' lifestyles. The less curious and more reactionary met the migrants with racism and rejection. Di…
Cannabis Nation: Control and Consumption in Britain, 1928-2008
"Cannabis has never been a more controversial substance in Britain. Over the last decade it has been reclassified twice, has been the subject of a range of official investigations and scientific studies, and has provoked media campaigns and all manner of political gesturing. Cannabis Nation seeks to understand this period by placing it back into the historical context of the long-term story of cannabis and the British. It takes up where its prede…
Howard Padwa, Social Poison: The Culture and Politics of Opiate Control in Britain and France, 1821-1926
Howard Padwa's Social Poison is a useful addition to existing work on the topic. It sits alongside the work of those who have located ideas about drugs in wider cultural discourses and social anxieties. His particular twist on this approach is to identify ideas about ‘nation’ as driving concerns about opium and its consumers, and he draws a comparison between France and Britain in order to do this. The structure of the book is chronological in ba…
Colonialismo, Cristãos E Esporte: A Igreja Católica E O Futebol Em Goa, 1883-1951
The chapter uses the development of football in Goa, the Portuguese colony in India until 1961, as a case study with which to critique existing histories of sport and colonialism. The start point of the article is that when taken together existing studies of football in particular, and to an extent sport in general, in colonial contexts bear a range of similarities. Broadly speaking a model can be drawn from them, one in which Christian missionar…
Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora
The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are considered. Contemporary issues such as the impact of the professional league in India and the role of UK Asians in the organization of the Indian game are considered. Future scenarios are explored and models for progression and problems facing the sport in south Asia are outlined
Howard Markel. An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine . New York: Vintage Books, 2012
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