David --
   Looking for something else, I ran across a wonderful course outline for "Intoxication in cultural and historical perspective" taught by Phil Withington at the University of Aberdeen.  What a wonderful (and demanding) course this would be to take!   
www.abdn.ac.uk/history/documents/cu4027.doc 
   Also, while I am e-mailing the list, today's Obsrever has an interesting piece on the decline of French wine sales and trends in the global wine market:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1401762,00.html
   Robin


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David:
 
When I did my global confluence research, I kept an eye out for short, synthetic works that would be useful for undergraduates. One I would recommend is Rudi Matthee, "Exotic Substances: The Introduction and Global Spread of Tobacco, Coffee, Cocoa, Tea and Distilled Liquor, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries," in Drugs and Narcotics in History, ed. Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 24-51. Matthee manages to pack quite a bit of information in a short essay, and it's a good "starter" for undergraduate research projects. If they can't find something in there that interests them, they've signed up for the wrong class.
 
David Courtwright