My decision to write this book came about by chance, after discovering historical scholarship on various stimulants—cannabis, opiates, cocaine, but also tobacco and coffee—in several spaces and temporalities. Part of what historian Paul Gootenberg has described..
Haggai Ram
Haggai Ram is an Associate Professor of Middle East history at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His teaching and research deal with modern Iranian history and the modern history of the Levant, including Palestine-Israel. His main previous publications include Myth and Mobilization in Revolutionary Iran: The Use of the Friday Congregational Sermon (American University Press, 1994); Reding Iran in Israel: The Self and the Other, Religion and Modernity (in Hebrew, 2006); and Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession (Stanford University Press, 2009).