With regard to a course on world history of alcohol and drugs, Terry
Parssinen co-authored a book that deals with the world opium trafficking in
the first half of the 20th century.  It is well worth looking at as a
possible assignment.

                                    Mark Haller

David Fahey wrote:

> May I ask for help as I explore the possibility of teaching (for
> undergraduates) a course on alcohol and drugs in world history?
> Suggestions re paperbacks?  Suggestions for excerpts from books and
> articles?  If anybody has a related syllabus for similar or more
> focused courses, I would be grateful to see it.  To the best of my
> knowledge, the only broad survey is Courtwright's Forces of Habit which
> is available in paperback.  I have not read Escohotado's A Brief
> History of Drugs, also available in paperback. (Gina Hames is a writing
> a global history of alcohol, but presumably it won't be available for
> some time.)  At my university students have electronic access to the
> ABC-Clio encyclopedia on the modern history of alcohol and temperance.
> We also have what is called electronic reserve, password-protected
> postings of articles and no more than 10% of copyrighted books.