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Intoxicating Zion - A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel (Hardcover)
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Intoxicating Zion - A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel (Hardcover)
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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 Mandatory Palestine and Israel.
Trafficking, use, and regulation; race, gender, and class;
colonialism and nation-building all weave 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.
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