Taming cannabis : drugs and empire in nineteenth-century France /

"Despite having the highest rates of cannabis use in the EU, France today enforces the most repressive laws against the drug in all of Europe. But as David A. Guba, Jr. reveals, France once functioned as the epicenter of a global movement to medicalize cannabis, and specifically hashish, for th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Guba, David A., Jr., 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
Series:Intoxicating histories ; 1
Subjects:
1800-1899
Cannabis > France > History > 19th century.
Hashish > France > History > 19th century.
Cannabis > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Haschisch > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY / Europe / France
Cannabis
Hashish
France
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Competing Strains: The Two Histories of Cannabis in Early Modern France
  • Jacques-François "Abdallah" Menou, Colonial Mimicry, and the First Anti-Cannabis Law in French History
  • Antoine Isaac Silvestre De Sacy and the Myth of the Hachichins: Orientalizing Hashish in France, 1800-40
  • "A Drug Not to Be Neglected": Medicalizing Hashish in France,1810-50
  • "Empire of Hallucinations and Illusions": De-Medicalizing Hashish in France, 1840-60
  • The Hachichins of Algiers: The Criminalization of Hashish in French Algeria, 1840-80.

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