The African Roots of Marijuana
Title | The African Roots of Marijuana PDF eBook |
Author | Chris S. Duvall |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2019-05-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1478004533 |
After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes—shaped widespread myths about the plant and were used to depict the continent as a cultural backwater and Africans as predisposed to drug use. These myths continue to influence contemporary thinking about cannabis. In The African Roots of Marijuana, Chris S. Duvall corrects common misconceptions while providing an authoritative history of cannabis as it flowed into, throughout, and out of Africa. Duvall shows how preexisting smoking cultures in Africa transformed the plant into a fast-acting and easily dosed drug and how it later became linked with global capitalism and the slave trade. People often used cannabis to cope with oppressive working conditions under colonialism, as a recreational drug, and in religious and political movements. This expansive look at Africa's importance to the development of human knowledge about marijuana will challenge everything readers thought they knew about one of the world's most ubiquitous plants.
A History of Moray and Nairn
Title | A History of Moray and Nairn PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Joseph Galliari Rampini |
Publisher | |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | Elginshire |
ISBN |
History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Title | History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760 PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Douglas Larned |
Publisher | |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Windham County (Conn.) |
ISBN |
Brutus: Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos
Title | Brutus: Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos PDF eBook |
Author | Hubert Languet |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521349871 |
A complete translation and detailed edition of an influential treatise.
America's National Game
Title | America's National Game PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Goodwill Spalding |
Publisher | |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Baseball |
ISBN |
This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.
A General Biographical Dictionary
Title | A General Biographical Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | John Gorton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 858 |
Release | 1828 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
History of Windham County
Title | History of Windham County PDF eBook |
Author | Richard M. Bayles |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1204 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780832870545 |