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Introduction to Intoxicants and Early Modern European Globalization

Part of: Intoxicants and Early Modern European Globalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2021

Kathryn James  and
Phil Withington Open the ORCID record for Phil Withington [Opens in a new window]
Kathryn James*
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Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Phil Withington*
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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Email: Kathryn.james@yale.edu; p.withington@sheffield.ac.uk
Email: Kathryn.james@yale.edu; p.withington@sheffield.ac.uk
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The Historical Journal , Volume 65 , Special Issue 1: Intoxicants and Early Modern European Globalization , February 2022 , pp. 1 - 11
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8 David T. Courtwright, Forces of habit: drugs and the making of the modern world (Cambridge, MA, 2001), pp. 19–22.

9 See, for example, Robinson and Adams, Diary of Robert Hooke, pp. 311–12, 329, 334, 341, 344.

10 Ibid., pp. 165, 215, 247, 265, 272.

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22 See also the articles by Zahedieh, Peterson, Stern, and Burnard in this special issue.

23 Anne E. C. McCants, ‘Global history and the history of consumption: congruence and divergence’, in Manuel Perez Garcia and Lucio De Sousa, eds., Global approaches and new polycentric approaches: Europe, Asia and the Americas in a world network system (Singapore, 2018), pp. 241–53; Julia Zinkina et al., A big history of globalization: the emergence of a global world system (Cham, 2019).

24 Robinson and Adams, Diary of Robert Hooke, pp. 83, 103, 107, 129.

25 Henderson, ‘Unpublished material’, pp. 136–7, 152.

26 Ibid., p. 137.

27 Robinson and Adams, Diary of Robert Hooke, p. 212.

28 Ibid., p. 274.

29 Ibid., p. 118.

30 Ibid.

31 Ibid., p. 216.

32 Courtwright, Forces of habit; Breen, Age of intoxication.

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