Author: Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9829801322
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Southron's Guide to Living in Uruguay
Author: The Southron's Guide to Living in Uruguay
Author: Publisher: The Southron
ISBN: 9829801314
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Cannabis
Author: Chris DuvallPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780233868
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Thanks to its best-known use, any mention of cannabis tends to bring up jokes about the munchies or debates about marijuana and legalized drug use. But this not-so-innocent flowering plant was one of the first to be domesticated by humans, and it has been used in spiritual, therapeutic, and even punitive applications ever since—in addition to its more recreational purpose. Despite all the hoopla surrounding cannabis, however, we actually understand relatively little about it in the human and ecological past. In Cannabis, Chris Duvall explores the botanical and cultural history of one of our most widely distributed crops, presenting an even-handed look at this heady little plant. Providing a global historical geography of cannabis, Duvall discusses the manufacture of hemp and its role in rope-making, clothing, and paper, as well as cannabis’s use as oil and fuel. His focus, though, is on its most prevalent use: as a psychoactive drug. Without advocating for either the prohibition or legalization of the drug, Duvall analyzes a wide range of works to offer a better understanding of both stances and, moreover, the diversity of human-cannabis relationships across the world. In doing so, he corrects the overly simplistic portrayals of cannabis that have dominated discourse on the subject, arguing that we need to understand the big picture in order to improve how the plant is managed worldwide. Richly illustrated and highly accessible, Cannabis is an essential read to understand the rapidly evolving debate over the legalization of marijuana in the United States and other countries.
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Author: Thomas PynchonThe Universal Cyclopaedia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Names and Their Histories
Author: Isaac TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gazetteers
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
National Summaries
Author: United States. National Office of Vital StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
The One Pound Note in the History of Banking in Great Britain
Author: William GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bank notes
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Mary Prince, Slavery, and Print Culture in the Anglophone Atlantic World
Author: Juliet ShieldsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108856594
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
This study examines a network of writers that coalesced around the publication of The History of Mary Prince (1831), which recounts Prince's experiences as an enslaved person in the West Indies and the events that brought her to seek assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society in London. It focuses on the three writers who produced the text - Mary Prince, Thomas Pringle, and Susanna Moodie - with glances at their pro-slavery opponent, James MacQueen, and their literary friends and relatives. The History connects the Black Atlantic, a diasporic formation created through the colonial trade in enslaved people, with the Anglophone Atlantic, created through British migration and colonial settlement. It also challenges Romantic ideals of authorship as an autonomous creative act and the literary text as an aesthetically unified entity. Collaborating with Prince on the History's publication impacted Moodie's and Pringle's attitudes towards slavery and shaped their own accounts of migration and settlement.