Drugs in Africa : histories and ethnographies of use, trade, and control /

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Edition:First Edition.
Imprint:New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
©2014
Description:xii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10090788
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Other authors / contributors:Ambler, Charles H., author, editor.
Carrier, Neil C. M., author, editor.
Klantschnig, Gernot, 1977- author, editor.
ISBN:9781137321893 (hardback : alk. paper)
113732189X (hardback : alk. paper)
9781137321909 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1137321903 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / by Charles Ambler, Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig
  • The drug empire : the control of drugs in Africa in global perspective / by Charles Ambler
  • The rise of branded alcoholic drinks in West Africa / by Dmitri van den Bersselaar
  • Histories of cannabis use and control in Nigeria, 1927-1967 / by Gernot Klantschnig
  • Alcohol licensing hours : time and temperance in Kenya / by Justin Willis
  • A respectable chew : highs and lows in the history of Kenyan khat / by Neil Carrier
  • The illegal trade in pharmaceuticals : historical cases from West Africa / by Donna Patterson
  • Tanzanian heroin users and the realities of addiction / by Sheryl McCurdy
  • Out of the shadows : negotiations and networks in the cannabis trade in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo / by Ann Laudati.