Dangerous harvest : drug plants and the transformation of indigenous landscapes / / edited by Michael K. Steinberg, Joseph J. Hobbs, Kent Mathewson.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Steinberg, Michael K., 1965-; Hobbs, Joseph J. 1956-; Mathewson, Kent, 1946-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: viii, 325 p. :; ill., maps.
• Other title: Introduction /; Drugs, moral geographies, and indigenous peoples : some initial mappings and central issues /; The stimulus of prohibition : a critical history of the global narcotics trade /; Opium and the people of Laos /; Opium production in Afghanistan and Pakistan /; The state and the ongoing struggle over coca in Bolivia : legitimacy, hegemony, and the exercise of power /; The marijuana milpa : agricultural adaptations in a post-subsistence Maya landscape in southern Belize /; Sacred and profane uses of the cactus Lophophora Williamsii from the south Texas Texas peyote gardens /; Desert traffic : the dynamics of the drug trade in northwestern Mexico /; Cannabis in colonial India : production, state intervention, and resistance in the late nineteenth-century Bengali landscape /; Suppressing opium and "reforming" minorities : antidrug campaigns in ethnic communities in the early People's Republic of China /; Environmental and social consequences of coca/cocaine in Peru : policy alternatives and a research agenda /; Modern use and environmental impact of the kava plant int eh remote Oceania / Mark Merlin, William Raynor -- The global nexus of drug cultivation / Joseph J. Hobbs.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 0195143191 (acidfree paper); 0195143205 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Michael K. Steinberg, Joseph J. Hobbs, Kent Mathewson.