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Drugs, Labor and Colonial Expansion

"This book explores how Europeans introduced and used drugs in colonial contexts for the exploitation and placation of indigenous labor. Combining history and anthropology, it examines the role of drugs in trade and labor during the age of western colonial expansion. From considering the introd...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jankowiak, William
Otros Autores: Bradburd, Daniel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : University of Arizona Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Drugs, desire, and European economic expansion / Daniel Bradburd and William Jankowiak
  • Mutual exploitation? : Aboriginal Australian encounters with Europeans, Southeast Asians, and tobacco / Maggie Brady and Jeremy Long
  • "They are beginning to learn the use of tobacco" : cultural context and the creation of a passion in colonial Papua New Guinea / Terence E. Hays
  • Alcohol and the slave trade in West Africa, 1400-1850 / Charles Ambler
  • Alcohol and the fur trade in New France and English America, 1600-1800 / Peter C. Mancall
  • Rum and ganja : indenture, drug foods, labor motivation, and the evolution of the modern sugar industry in Trinidad / Michael V. Angrosino
  • Inside the Windhoek lager : liquor and lust in Namibia / Robert Gordon
  • Alcohol as a direct and indirect labor enhancer in the mixed economy of the BaTswana, 1800-1900 / David N. Suggs and Stacy A. Lewis
  • Coca as symbol and labor enhancer in the Andes : a historical overview / Vicki Cassman, Larry Cartmell, and Eliana Belmonte
  • Caffeine and culture / E.N. Anderson
  • Drugs in work and trade : new directions for the study of drug use / Daniel Bradburd and William Jankowiak.