Dangerous harvest drug plants and the transformation of indigenous landscapes / edited by Michael K. Steinberg, Joseph J. Hobbs, Kent Mathewson.
| Other author | Steinberg, Michael K., 1965- |
| Other author | Hobbs, Joseph J. (Joseph John), 1956- |
| Other author | Mathewson, Kent, 1946- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | viii, 325 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| 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 Mccoy -- Opium and the people of Laos / Joseph Westermeyer -- Opium production in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Nigel J.R. Allen -- 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 post-subsistence Maya landscape in southern Belize / Michael K. Steinberg -- Sacred and profane uses of the cactus Lophophora Williamsii from the south Texas Texas peyote gardens / Clarissa Kimber, Darrel McDonald -- Desert traffic : the dynamics of the drug trade in northwestern Mexico / Eric 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 int eh remote Oceania / Mark Merlin, William Raynor -- The global nexus of drug cultivation / Joseph J. Hobbs. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2002014779 |
| ISBN | 0195143191 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0195143205 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |