First published in 1995 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-267) and index.

1. Alcohol and its alternatives : symbol and substance in pre-industrial cultures / Andrew Sherratt -- 2. Coca, beer, cigars and yagé : meals and anti-meals in an Amerindinian community / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- 3. Nicotian dreams : the prehistory and early history of tobacco in eastern North America / Alexander von Gernet -- 4. Betelnut 'bisnis' and cosmology : a view from Papua New Guinea / Eric Hirsch -- 5. Kola nuts : the 'coffee' of the Central Sudan / Paul E. Lovejoy -- 6. Excitantia : or, how enlightenment Europe took to soft drugs / Jordan Goodman -- 7. From coffeehouse to parlour : the consumption of coffee, tea and sugar in north-western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Woodruff d. Smith -- 8. Tobacco use and tobacco taxation : a battle of interests in early modern Europe / Jacob M. Price -- 9. Globalizing ganja : the British Empire and international cannabis traffic c. 1834 to c. 1939 / James H. Mills -- 10. Japan and the world narcotics traffic / Kathryn Meyer -- 11. The rise and fall and rise of cocaine in the United States / David T. Courtwright -- 12. Building castles of spit : the role of khat in work, ritual and leisure / Axel Klein and Susan Beckerleg.

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