Intoxicating Zion a social history of hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel / Haggai Ram.
| Author/creator | Ram, Haggai, 1960- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The drug trade in the Levant -- Smuggling in Mandatory Palestine -- The underworld of users -- Jews and interwar Oriental fantasies -- Hashish trafficking in Israel -- Mizrahim and the "perils" of hashish smoking. |
| Abstract | "When European powers carved political borders across the Middle East following World War I, a curious event in the international drug trade occurred: Palestine became the most important hashish waystation in the region and a thriving market for consumption. British and French colonial authorities utterly failed to control the illicit trade, raising questions about the legitimacy of their mandatory regimes. The creation of the Israeli state, too, had little effect to curb illicit trade. By the 1960s, drug trade had become a major point of contention in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and drug use widespread. "Intoxicating Zion" is the first book to tell the story of hashish in Palestine/Israel. Trafficking, use, and regulation; race, gender, and class; colonialism and nation-building all twine together in Haggai Ram's social history of the drug from the 1920s to the aftermath of the 1967 War. The hashish trade encompassed smugglers, international gangs, residents, law enforcers, and political actors, and Ram traces these flows through the interconnected realms of cross-border politics, economics, and culture. Hashish use was and is a marker of belonging and difference, and its history offers readers a unique glimpse into how the modern Middle East was made"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Ram, Haggai, 1960- Intoxicating Zion Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020. 9781503613263 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020025590 |
| ISBN | 9781503613928 (epub) |
| ISBN | (cloth) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |