David,

The books I come to think of is "Drugs and narcotics in history" edited by Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich (1996), "Essential substances" by Richar Rudgley (1993) and "Consuming habits" edited by Jordan Goodman, Paul E Lovejoy and Andrew Sheratt (1995), but I haven´t seen this one in paperback.

Mats Hilte

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From: David Fahey <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, October 17, 2004 2:38 pm
Subject: teaching  alcohol and drugs history

> 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 
> whichis available in paperback.  I have not read Escohotado's A Brief
> History of Drugs, also available in paperback. (Gina Hames is a 
> writinga 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.
>