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Title Drugs, labor, and colonial expansion / edited by William Jankowiak and Daniel Bradburd.

Imprint Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2003.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.36 D842 2003    ---  Available
Description viii, 253 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-244) and index.
Contents Drugs, desire, and European economic expansion -- Mutual exploitation? -- "They are beginning to learn the use of tobacco" -- Alcohol and the slave trade in West Africa, 1400-1850 -- Alcohol and the fur trade in New France and English America, 1600-1800 -- Rum and ganja -- Inside the Windhoek lager -- Alcohol as a direct and indirect labor enhancer in the mixed economy of the Batswana, 1800-1900 -- Coca as symbol and labor enhancer in the Andes -- Caffeine and culture -- Drugs in work and trade.
Subject Indigenous peoples -- Drug use -- History.
Drug abuse -- Cross-cultural studies.
Drug traffic -- History.
Narcotics -- History.
Added Author Jankowiak, William R.
Bradburd, Daniel.
ISBN 0816523517 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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