Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History
Dados do Periódico
| Tipo | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Editora | Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
| ISBN-13 | 9780190842642 |
| Open Library | OL26087581W |
| Total de publicações | 7 |
| Período coberto | 2022 - 2022 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citada por | 2 |
| Fator de impacto | 0.429 |
| Índice h | 1 |
Drugs and their illicit use have long fascinated writers and the reading public. Informed by new interdisciplinary perspectives, a growing number of academically trained historians are now approaching drugs as a fresh topic for serious research. This OUP 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 academic field, utilizing both a global scope and long-term lens. The thirty-five original contributions here simultaneously survey what is known historically about drugs across the world (in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa) and illustrate their increasingly global interconnections. The ever-changing human relationship with drugs, while going back millennia, became consolidated across the early modern world. These longer drug histories converged globally with the nineteenth-century rise of modern pariah drugs; with the dramatic twentieth-century shift to illicit drugs and global prohibitions; and emerging twenty-first century possibilities for rethinking the social, health, and policy approaches to global drug trafficking and use
New Imperial Drug Trades, 1500–1800
It was not until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that drug trades became truly global in scope, and drugs items of everyday sociability. This chapter draws connections between regional cultures of healing, drug cultivation, and new forms of consumption; and the larger cultural, socioeconomic, and medical impacts of drugs in the early modern era. It argues that the globalization of drugs like coffee, tea, cinchona, opium, and tobacco shape…
The Cultural Biography of Opium in China
Opium is central in the history of nineteenth- to early twentieth-century late imperial and modern China. Opium’s shift from herbal medicine into a larger narco-economy helped shape China’s foreign relations and economic life, affecting Chinese culture and the long struggle for modern China. This chapter puts together researched social history issues of who smoked opium, when, and why. By considering opium as a consumer item, historians “decrimin…
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…
Drugs in Africa from the Slave Trade to Colonialism
This chapter explores the transformation of African drug production, consumption, and trade from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. It centers on relationships between increasingly intrusive international trades and long-rooted regional systems of drug production and consumption. Drug products affected the Atlantic, Saharan, and Indian Ocean slaving systems, and the expansion of European power into the continent transformed and extended…
DrugsThe Lessons from History?
This epilogue chapter carries a big question mark. Rather than simply list the big things historians now know about drugs and recommend to policymakers or the public, it asks the deeper more nuanced historical question of how the growing body of drug history research has actually been deployed. What could the “lessons of history” be? (but largely haven’t been); the polemical uses of drug history by non-historians; its argumentative use by histori…
The Impact of the US Drug War on People of Color
This chapter surveys three facets of the US war on drugs and its effects on communities of color. The first is how sentencing reforms from the 1960s on (mandatory minimums, stronger punitive drug laws) contributed to the rise of today’s mass incarceration crisis. Second is what scholars term the “collateral effects” of the drug war, including material impacts on wealth and assets, structural effects on communities of color (such as social punishm…
The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History
Drugs and their illicit use have long fascinated writers and the reading public. Informed by new interdisciplinary perspectives, a growing number of academically trained historians are now approaching drugs as a fresh topic for serious research. This OUP 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 academic field, utilizing both a global scope and lon…
The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History
Drugs and their illicit use have long fascinated writers and the reading public. Informed by new interdisciplinary perspectives, a growing number of academically trained historians are now approaching drugs as a fresh topic for serious research. This OUP 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 academic field, utilizing both a global scope and lon…
New Imperial Drug Trades, 1500–1800
It was not until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that drug trades became truly global in scope, and drugs items of everyday sociability. This chapter draws connections between regional cultures of healing, drug cultivation, and new forms of consumption; and the larger cultural, socioeconomic, and medical impacts of drugs in the early modern era. It argues that the globalization of drugs like coffee, tea, cinchona, opium, and tobacco shape…
The Cultural Biography of Opium in China
Opium is central in the history of nineteenth- to early twentieth-century late imperial and modern China. Opium’s shift from herbal medicine into a larger narco-economy helped shape China’s foreign relations and economic life, affecting Chinese culture and the long struggle for modern China. This chapter puts together researched social history issues of who smoked opium, when, and why. By considering opium as a consumer item, historians “decrimin…
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…
Drugs in Africa from the Slave Trade to Colonialism
This chapter explores the transformation of African drug production, consumption, and trade from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. It centers on relationships between increasingly intrusive international trades and long-rooted regional systems of drug production and consumption. Drug products affected the Atlantic, Saharan, and Indian Ocean slaving systems, and the expansion of European power into the continent transformed and extended…
DrugsThe Lessons from History?
This epilogue chapter carries a big question mark. Rather than simply list the big things historians now know about drugs and recommend to policymakers or the public, it asks the deeper more nuanced historical question of how the growing body of drug history research has actually been deployed. What could the “lessons of history” be? (but largely haven’t been); the polemical uses of drug history by non-historians; its argumentative use by histori…
The Impact of the US Drug War on People of Color
This chapter surveys three facets of the US war on drugs and its effects on communities of color. The first is how sentencing reforms from the 1960s on (mandatory minimums, stronger punitive drug laws) contributed to the rise of today’s mass incarceration crisis. Second is what scholars term the “collateral effects” of the drug war, including material impacts on wealth and assets, structural effects on communities of color (such as social punishm…
The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History
Drugs and their illicit use have long fascinated writers and the reading public. Informed by new interdisciplinary perspectives, a growing number of academically trained historians are now approaching drugs as a fresh topic for serious research. This OUP 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 academic field, utilizing both a global scope and lon…