{"product_id":"exoticizing-consumption-european-drug-cultures-1670-1740-paperback","title":"Exoticizing Consumption: European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. C. Spary\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJustin Rivest\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe. Often, they were objects of appropriation--substances whose curative virtues were known to Indigenous peoples and assimilated into European knowledge and commerce by missionaries, soldiers, and merchants. \u003ci\u003eExoticizing Consumption\u003c\/i\u003e explores the many ways in which new global drugs disrupted the European medical marketplace, how they came to be known, described, valued, and used in Europe, how they reached European markets, who sold them, and who consumed them. Individual chapters covering many parts of Europe, from Spain in the south to Russia in the north, address the effects of commercial expansion when no central, national, or international system for policing drugs existed. Collectively, they trace the movement of drugs from their sources of extraction all over the world in light of intertwined processes of knowing, healing, using, and selling in the global marketplace and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. C. Spary (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eE. C. Spary \u003c\/b\u003eis professor in the history of modern knowledge at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eUtopia's Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEating the Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFeeding France\u003c\/i\u003e, and the coeditor of several collections of essays, including \u003ci\u003eCultures of Natural History\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJustin Rivest (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJustin Rivest \u003c\/b\u003eis an assistant professor in the Department of History at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. His work has appeared in\u003ci\u003e Early Science and Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBulletin of the History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Canadian Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmbix\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew England Journal of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52790887055693,"sku":"9780822967750","price":76.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/uS7Y2Tf6cL9780822967750.webp?v=1763456031","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/exoticizing-consumption-european-drug-cultures-1670-1740-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}