Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-239) and index.
Contents:
Kola nuts : the 'coffee' of the central Sudan / Paul E. Lovejoy. Coca, beer, cigars and yagé : meals and anti-meals in an Amerindian community / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- Nicotian dreams : the prehistory and early history of tobacco in eastern North America / Alexander von Gernet -- Efficacy and concentration : analogies in betel use among the Fuyuge (Papua New Guinea) / Eric Hirsch -- Kola nuts : the 'coffee' of the central Sudan / Paul E. Lovejoy. The rise and fall and rise of cocaine in the United States / David T. Courtwright. From coffeehouse to parlour : the consumption of coffee, tea and sugar in north-western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Woodruff D. Smith -- Tobacco use and tobacco taxation : a battle of interests in early modern Europe / Jacob M. Price -- Japan and the world narcotics traffic / Kathryn Meyer -- The rise and fall and rise of cocaine in the United States / David T. Courtwright.
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