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 -----Original Message----- From: Alcohol and Drugs History Society [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Courtwright, David Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 7:17 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: drugs in world history 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