Title: Heavy traffic : the global drug trade in historical perspective /
Authors: Faunce, Kenneth V., 1962-
Year: 2021
Subjects: Drug traffic History.; Drug abuse History; Drugs of abuse History.; Drug abuse; Drug traffic; Drugs of abuse
Abstract: "A higher education history book on the global drug trade"--
Contents: Introduction: the globalization of drugs -- Part I: Drugs and early modern globalization -- Coffee: an Indian Ocean history -- Tobacco: an Atlantic Ocean history -- Rum: global maritime trade -- Caribbean and North American rum -- The eighteenth century: a global trade in drugs -- Part II: The commercialization of opium and cocaine -- Opium and cocaine before the eighteenth century -- eighteenth-century trade patterns -- Industrialization and global commercialization -- The industrial revolution -- Mass production and advertising: patent medicines and Coca-Cola -- Part III: The globalization of drugs through imperialism -- Drugs and early imperialism -- The new imperialism -- The role of new imperialism in the growth of the drug market.