...James H. Mills Abstract This article examines the market for cocaine in India during the early twentieth century and the efforts of the colonial state to control it. The British authorities issued regulations to prohibit the drug's use as early as 1900, and yet by the start of World War I...

... means of disciplining the nation's citizens. Colonial India is the focal scene for James H. Mills , who endeavors to deepen our comparative understanding of drug markets in Asia. Like opium in China, cocaine enjoyed broad use in late colonial India and was transformed from a popular medicine...

... THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES and worldwide narcotics policy, follows with a long section on Latin American cocaine traffic, and concludes with an examination of Asian heroin trade. Its purpose is to examine why U.S. policy has failed either to permanently reduce supply or to gradually end demand, not to offer...

... with it. But is this not true in most societies? Moreover, there are many kinds of fashion, some more mainstream than others. Consider a few American examples. In the 1920s, rich white New Yorkers went slumming in Harlem nightclubs, and sixty years later the beautiful people snorted cocaine and danced at Studio 54...

..., the sections on cocaine trafficking in Latin America are informed by a rich fund of empirical data and a sharply focused analysis. But the treatment of Asia is comparatively superficial. After a hasty survey of opium production that seems partial and, in parts, inaccurate, the author abandons Asia to focus his...

...-Building , eds. Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jefferess , 31 – 49 . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . Gootenberg Paul . 2008 . Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Grinspoon Lester , and Peter Hedblom . 1975...