--Examines the international trade in coffee, alcohol, opium, heroin, and cocaine, which have had a significant impact on economies and societies in countries around the world.

--Poses these questions: How did this international market for drugs develop? What roles have merchants, government officials, and drug manufacturers played in shaping this market over time and space? What can this tell us about the process of globalization?

--By examining the history of the global drug trade, Heavy Traffic offers insight into globalization as an historical process, thereby helping to make sense of today's interconnected world, where products grown or produced in only a handful of places circulate widely, with varying impacts on local populations.

--By investigating how producers, merchants, consumers, laborers, and government officials have created, sustained, transformed, and at times sought to destroy this global drug market, Heavy Traffic helps students to understand globalization not as an inevitable or natural process, but instead as one that is created by and responds to a variety of human motivations.

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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Faunce, Ken
ISBN: 9780190696238
Condition: New
Dimensions: 9.10 x 0.50
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Year: 2020

Language: English

Heavy Traffic: The Global Drug Trade in Historical Perspective

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