{"title":"Cocaine and the Night: The Social Life of a Drug in Rio de Janeiro during Brazil’s First Republic, 1885–1920s","authors":"Athos Luiz Dos Santos Vieira","doi":"10.1086/721715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721715","url":null,"abstract":"When cocaine became a pharmaceutical product in the middle of the 1880s, its clinical use as a local anesthetic made it valuable for medical professionals. This was how the alkaloid was introduced into the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro—as a widely available, cheap, and efficient treatment for toothache. This article explores how cocaine became integrated into nonmedical aspects of Rio’s social life by actors in various walks of life, for a variety of purposes. Cocaine contributed to new forms of pleasure seeking and economic benefit in a postslavery, modernizing city landscape, as nightlife developed new vocabularies, gestures, emotions, and hazards around the drug’s sales and use—chronicled by a new generation of journalists, storytellers, and law enforcement officials. Ultimately, I argue, cocaine played a notable role in expanding the spatial and temporal frontiers of the city’s social fabric, especially its nightlife, at the turn of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"36 1","pages":"238 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46622537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decolonizing Drug History? Notes on a Journey Southward","authors":"Maziyar Ghiabi, T. Waetjen","doi":"10.1086/721752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721752","url":null,"abstract":"When my father noticed that I could not do any work more than to drink, he engaged an expert palm-wine tapster for me; he had no other work more than to tap palm-wine every day. So my father gave me a palm-tree farm which was nine miles square and it contained 560,000 palm-trees, and this palm-wine tapster was tapping one hundred and fifty kegs of palm-wine every morning, but before 2 o’clock p.m., I wouldhavedrunkall of it; after thathewouldgoand tapanother75kegs in the evening which I would be drinking till morning. So my friends were uncountable by that time and they were drinking palm-wine with me frommorning til a late hour in the night.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"36 1","pages":"119 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44219035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jonathan Rees, The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley’s Fight for Pure Food. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.","authors":"Brittany R. Cohen","doi":"10.1086/721716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46095094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maziyar Ghiabi, ed., Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.","authors":"Paul Gootenberg","doi":"10.1086/721712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721712","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43566722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Benjamin T. Smith, The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade. New York: W. W. Norton, 2021.","authors":"C. Thornton","doi":"10.1086/721711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721711","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42195801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Native Is Indeed a Born Addict, but So Far He Has Not Yet Found His True Poison”: Psychiatric Theories on Overconsumption and Race in the Colonial Maghreb","authors":"N. Studer","doi":"10.1086/721607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721607","url":null,"abstract":"In 1937, the French psychiatrist Pierre Maréschal presented a paper on “Heroin Abuse in Tunisia,” in which he claimed that all Tunisians were “born addicts,” comparing their allegedly excessive nature with the habits of European addicts. Their predilection toward overconsumption was explained through the theory of a “primitive mentality” shared by all North Africans, proposed by the psychiatric École d’Alger. Many colonial psychiatric sources claimed that when it came to both harmful and harmless substances, Muslim North Africans either remained abstinent or consumed excessive amounts; moderate consumption was believed to be racially impossible among them. French colonial psychiatrists suggested that some of the addictions they observed among North Africans who were colonized were a direct result of French colonization. Their worldview of colonialism as a force for good was shattered by their perception that, under French influence, Muslim Algerians were newly taking up alcohol and heroin.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"36 1","pages":"261 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49047785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading Cannabis in the Colony: Law, Nomenclature, and Proverbial Knowledge in British India","authors":"Utathya Chattopadhyaya","doi":"10.1086/721363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721363","url":null,"abstract":"Indian legal regimes that regulate cannabis use a three-part nomenclature of “ganja,” “bhang,” and “charas” as distinct South Asian intoxicants produced from particular parts of the plant—namely, and correspondingly, the flower, leaf, and resinous matter. This typology was institutionalized within the imagined colonial space of India with the intensification of liberal empire. This article explores the inconsistent history of naming conventions alongside polyvalent and relational notions of the experience of intoxication in British India to ask what knowledge was displaced to install a modern cannabis taxonomy suited to institutional medicine, policing, and revenue accumulation. In doing so, it revisits the rich collection of proverbial knowledge in the judicial archive of cannabis that illuminated variable contexts, specific social relations, and articulations of intention, deterrence, and discernment. It argues that the debris of socialized knowledge about meanings of intoxication can spur the imperative to think decolonially about cannabis in India.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"36 1","pages":"201 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48775250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carl L. Hart, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear. New York: Penguin, 2021.","authors":"B. J. Borougerdi","doi":"10.1086/721714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721714","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43638646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edward B. Westermann, Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021.","authors":"Bastiaan Willems","doi":"10.1086/721720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721720","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42904444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Susan L. Smith, Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017.","authors":"Colleen Lanier-Christensen","doi":"10.1086/721718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721718","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45782137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}