The Global Narcotics Trade: From the Opium Wars to War on Drugs Session 1 - April 14 – Introductory Seminar • This session will cover the scope and aims of the course, introductions and a discussion of course expectations. Session 2 - April 28 – The Narcotics Trade and Global History • Paul Gootenberg, 'Introduction: A New Global History of Drugs', in Paul Gootenberg (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History (Oxford University Press, 2022) • Benjamin Breen. Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade. Early Modern Americas. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), INTRODUCTION. Session 3 – May 5 – The Opium Trade and Early Prohibition • Anne L. Foster, “The Philippines, the United States, and the Origins of Global Narcotics Prohibition,” The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (Spring 2019) • Diana Kim, Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia (2020), Chapter 2 A Shared Turn: Opium and the Rise of Prohibition. Session 4 – May 12 – The Global Rise of Cocaine • Peter Thilly, “The Fujitsuru Mystery: Translocal Xiamen, Japanese Expansionism, and the Asian Cocaine Trade, 1900–1937,” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 1(25) (2017). • J. H. Mills, “Cocaine and the British Empire: The Drug and the Diplomats at the Hague Opium Conference, 1911–12,” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 42(3) , (2014), 400–419.
Next week, the German university semester begins. I'll be teaching a course on "The Global Narcotics Trade: From the Opium Wars to War on Drugs"at the Free University of Berlin as part of the Global History MA program. Here is the syllabus for any who are interested:
10.04.2025 09:54 — 👍 92 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 0
