Drugs and alcohol in the Pacific : new consumption trends and their consequences / edited by Juan F. Gamella.

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Published: Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2002.
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Series:Pacific world ; v. 14
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Format: Book
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. The Indigenous Base. 1. Antiquity of the Use of New World Hallucinogens / Richard Evans Schultes. 2. Psychoactive Substances of the South Seas: Betel, Kava and Pituri / John Cawte. 3. Peyotism, 1521-1891 / J. S. Slotkin. 4. Russian Use of Amanita muscaria: A Footnote to Wasson's Soma / Ethel Dunn
  • Pt. 2. Tobacco. 5. The Introduction of Tobacco into Japan / Ernest M. Satow. 6. Early Prohibitions of Tobacco in China and Manchuria / L. Carrington Goodrich. 7. Tobacco, Culture, and Health among American Indians: A Historical Review / Christina M. Pego, Robert F. Hill and Glenn W. Solomon / [et al.]
  • Pt. 3. Opium. 8. Opium Smoking in Ch'ing China / Jonathan Spence. 9. Speculations on the Nature and Pattern of Opium Smoking / John C. Kramer. 10. Opium in Java: A Sinister Friend / James R. Rush. 11. The Opium Trade in Szechwan, 1881 to 1911 / S. A. M. Adshead. 12. Reform, Nationalism and Internationalism: The Opium Suppression Movement in China and the Anglo-American Influence, 1900-1908 / Thomas D. Reins
  • Pt. 4. Coca-Cocaine. 13. Inca and Colonial Settlement, Coca Cultivation and Endemic Disease in the Tropical Forest / Daniel W. Gade. 14. Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes / Joseph A. Gagliano. 15. America's First Cocaine Epidemic: What Did We Learn? / David F. Musto
  • Pt. 5. Alcohol. 16. Opening Pandora's Bottle: Reconstructing Micronesians' Early Contacts with Alcoholic Beverages / Mac Marshall and Leslie B. Marshall. 17. Drinking, Popular Protest, and Governmental Response in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Latin America / John E. Kicza. 18. Malhiot's Journal: An Ethnohistoric Assessment of Chippewa Alcohol Behavior in the Early Nineteenth Century / Jack O. Waddell. 19. Alcohol in Chinese Poems: References to Drunkenness, Flushing, and Drinking / Julia Lee. 20. "A Battle Not Man's But God's": Origins of the American Temperance Crusade in the Struggle for Religious Authority / Laura A. Schmidt.