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Dangerous harvest : drug plants and the transformation of indigenous landscapes
Title
Dangerous harvest : drug plants and the transformation of indigenous landscapes / edited by Michael K. Steinberg, Joseph J. Hobbs, Kent Mathewson.
ISBN
0195143191 (hbk. : acid-free)
0195143205 (pbk. : acid-free)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Physical Description
viii, 325 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2004
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Michael K. Steinberg
Drugs, moral geographies, and indigenous peoples : some initial mappings and central issues / Kent Mathewson
The stimulus of prohibition : a critical history of the global narcotics trade / Alfred W. McCoy
Opium and the people of Laos / Joseph Westermeyer
Opium production in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Nigel J. R. Allan
The state and the ongoing struggle over coca in Bolivia : legitimacy, hegemony, and the exercise of power / Harry Sanabria
The marijuana milpa : agricultural adaptations in a postsubsistence Maya landscape in southern Belize / Michael K. Steinberg
Sacred and profane uses of the cactus Lophophora williamsii from the south Texas peyote gardens / Clarissa T. Kimber, Darrel McDonald
Desert traffic : the dynamics of the drug trade in northwestern Mexico / Eric P. Perramond
Cannabis in colonial India : production, state intervention, and resistance in the late nineteenth-century Bengali landscape / James H. Mills
Suppressing opium and "reforming" minorities : antidrug campaigns in ethnic communities in the early People's Republic of China / Zhou Yongming
Environmental and social consequences of coca/cocaine in Peru : policy alternatives and a research agenda / Kenneth R. Young
Modern use and environmental impact of the Kava plant in remote Oceania / Mark Merlin, William Raynor
The global nexus of drug cultivation / Joseph J. Hobbs.
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