Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Indigenous Base: Antiquity of the use of new world hallucinogens, Richard Evans Schultes; Psychoactive substances of the South Seas: Betel, Kava and Pituri’, John Cawte; Peyotism, 1521-1891, J.S. Slotkin; Russian use of Amanita muscaria: a footnote to Wasson’s Soma, Ethel Dunn; Tobacco: The introduction of tobacco into Japan, Ernest M. Satow; Early prohibitions of tobacco in China and Manchuria, L. Carrington Goodrich; Tobacco, culture and health among American Indians: a historical review, Christina M. Pego, Robert F. Hill, Glenn W. Solomon, Robert M. Chisholm and Suzanne E. Ivey; Opium: Opium smoking in Ch’ing China, Jonathan Spence; Speculations on the nature and pattern of opium smoking, John C. Kramer; Opium in Java: a sinister friend, James R. Rush; The opium trade in Szechwan, 1881 to 1911, S.A.M. Adshead; Reform, nationalism and internationalism: the opium suppression movement in China and the Anglo-American influence, 1900-1908, Thomas D. Reins; Coca-Cocaine: Inca and colonial settlement, coca cultivation and endemic disease in the tropical forest, Daniel W. Gade; Coca and popular medicine in Peru: an historical analysis of attitudes, Joseph A. Gagliano; America’s first cocaine epidemic: What did we learn?, David F. Musto; Alcohol: Opening Pandora’s bottle: reconstructing Micronesians’ early contacts with alcoholic beverages, Mac Marshall and Leslie B. Marshall; Drinking, popular protest and governmental response in 17th- and 18th-century Latin America, John E. Kicza; Malhiot’s Journal: an ethnohistoric assessment of Chippewa alcohol behaviour in the early 19th century, Jack O. Waddell; Alcohol in Chinese poems: references to drunkenness, flushing and drinking, Julia Lee; A Battle not Man’s But God’s: origins of the American temperance crusade in the struggle for religious authority, Laura A. Schmidt; Index.

About the Author

Juan F. Gamella, University of Granada, Spain Richard Evans Schultes, John Cawte, J.S. Slotkin, Ethel Dunn, Ernest M. Satow, L. Carrington Goodrich, Christina M. Pego, Robert F. Hill, Glenn W. Solomon, Robert M. Chisholm, Suzanne E. Ivey, Jonathan Spence, John C. Kramer, James R. Rush, S.A.M. Adshead, Thomas D. Reins, Daniel W. Gade, Joseph A. Gagliano, David F. Musto, Mac Marshall, Leslie B. Marshall, John E. Kicza, Jack O. Waddell, Julia Lee, Laura A. Schmidt.

Reviews

'The editor's introduction is useful in several ways, particularly as a good overview for non-experts... As to the specific articles, they seem to be well chosen to highlight the diversity of peoples, places, and practices in the Pacific.' Bulletin of the Pacific Circle