Getting High
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-5469-5 (ISBN)
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This fascinating book traces the global history of marijuana, reaching back thousands of years. Noted historian John Charles Chasteen follows the use of the drug since Neolithic times, which makes marijuana among the first domesticated plants. Surprisingly, though, only infrequently has it been used as a recreational drug. Instead, there is a vibrant spiritual dimension to its long history that has been continually ignored.
Beginning with the familiar “outbreak” of the 1960s, Chasteen unearths successive layers of marijuana’s history. Written with insight, clarity, sophistication, and good humor, this deeply informed work discusses the cultivation of cannabis and its many forms, including hemp, one of the world’s principal fiber crops. After a tour of Latin America, Africa, India, and the Muslim world, Chasteen concludes that unlike alcohol marijuana has always flourished outside the mainstream. Its principal users have been creative outsiders of many kinds—mystics, artists, musicians, free thinkers, and spiritual seekers—as well as poor laborers attracted by its low cost. Marijuana, it seems, is a mind-expanding drug after all, and Chasteen explores its rich heritage with captivating insight.
John Charles Chasteen is a North Carolina writer, translator of Spanish and Portuguese, and, for twenty-five years, professor of history at UNC Chapel Hill, where he was born (on campus) in 1955. His classic Born in Blood and Fire is among the most widely read histories of Latin America in the English language. Chasteen’s abiding scholarly interest has been the emotional roots of nation and nationalism in nineteenth-century Latin America. His books on the topic include Heroes on Horseback: A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos, National Rhythms, African Roots: A Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance , and Americanos: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence. Chasteen is also an award-winning editor and translator of Latin American fiction and non-fiction, most recently The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil by the Brazilian literary master Joaquim Machado de Assis and The Gaucho Juan Moreira, the classic Argentine “true crime” saga by Eduardo Gutiérrez. He has a bilingual screenplay adaptation of W. H. Hudson’s The Purple Land, if anyone knows a producer. He lives with his wife, Carmen, in the countryside near Chapel Hill.
Chapter One: Getting High
Trouble with the Police
Meet the Cannabis Plant
Chapter Two: American Century
The Early Years
The Marihuana Tax Act, 1937
Rise and Fall of the Counterculture
Drug War, Culture War
Chapter Three: Atlantic World
Hemp and Rum, Strategic Resources
Mexico, and a Mystery
Colombia and Jamaica
Brazil and the African Connection
Africa, South of the Congo River
Chapter Four: Medieval Hashish
Wine versus Hashish
Hashish Eaters
God’s Unruly Friends
The Assassin Legend
Not for Everybody
Chapter Five: Asian Origins
Historic India
The Prehistoric Eurasian Steppes
The Silk Road and Beyond
The Earliest Horizon
Chapter Six: Epiphanies
Glossary
Sources and Asides
Index
About the Author
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations; Black & White Illustrations |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 239 mm |
| Gewicht | 395 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde ► Phytotherapie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4422-5469-6 / 1442254696 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4422-5469-5 / 9781442254695 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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