Author: David Francis BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Wanderings on the Seas and Shores of Africa
Author: David Francis BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Wanderings On The Seas And Shores Of Africa
Author: David Francis BaconPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781378700389
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
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The Yellow Demon of Fever
Author: Manuel BarciaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300215851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.
The African Roots of Marijuana
Author: Chris S. DuvallPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478004533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes—shaped widespread myths about the plant and were used to depict the continent as a cultural backwater and Africans as predisposed to drug use. These myths continue to influence contemporary thinking about cannabis. In The African Roots of Marijuana, Chris S. Duvall corrects common misconceptions while providing an authoritative history of cannabis as it flowed into, throughout, and out of Africa. Duvall shows how preexisting smoking cultures in Africa transformed the plant into a fast-acting and easily dosed drug and how it later became linked with global capitalism and the slave trade. People often used cannabis to cope with oppressive working conditions under colonialism, as a recreational drug, and in religious and political movements. This expansive look at Africa's importance to the development of human knowledge about marijuana will challenge everything readers thought they knew about one of the world's most ubiquitous plants.
The Knickerbocker
Author: American Monthly Knickerbocker
Author: Charles Fenno HoffmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog
Author: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Author: Rich. F. Burton