Cannabis
Global Histories
$118.21
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2021
Summary
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 th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262045209 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262045206 |
| Author: | Lucas Richert, Jim Mills |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 368g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
About The Author
Lucas Richert
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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