This landmark collection of essays by thirty-five historians, working on a global scale, brings together the latest knowledge and perspectives about the long origins and transformations of today's illicit drugs such as cannabis, heroin, and cocaine.
This landmark collection of essays by thirty-five historians, working on a global scale, brings together the latest knowledge and perspectives about the long origins and transformations of today's illicit drugs such as cannabis, heroin, and cocaine.
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.
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* 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.
* 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.
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