Article: Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition, 1800-1928.(Book Review)

Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition. By James H. Mills (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii plus 239 pp.).

The profusion of recent historical work in the field of "drug history" may be roughly sorted by the authors' orientation to two important questions. First, is the work drug-specific, or does it aim to say something generally about a range of illicit or licit substances? The former tend to emphasize detail and specific contexts, while the latter works paint with a much broader brush in looking for widely applicable generalizations. Second, does the author have an explicit policy orientation, or does the work tend to emphasize careful ...

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