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Food/Drugs

Review of Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant (2022) by Seth Garfield

This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman (2019)

Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune by Joshua Eisenman (2018)

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China, by Frank Dikötter, Lars Peter Laamann, and Zhou Xun (2004)

Book cover of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler (2016)

A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico jointly created the Mexican Drug War, by Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace (2015)

When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity, by Kolleen M. Guy (2010)

Great Books on Urban Foodways

Great Books on Smoking History

The Cuban Connection by Eduardo Saénz Rovner (2008)

Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption & Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States by John Soluri (2005)

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