I can answer this question in two ways, one rather boring and mundane, the other somewhat more interesting and long-winded. In one sense, I wrote this book because it was my Ph.D. dissertation project and I needed to publish it to get tenure! On the other hand, the b..
Johan Mathew
Johan Mathew is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea, which won MESA’s Roger Owen Award and the Middle East Political Economy Prize. He is currently at work on a book about narcotics consumption and the history of capitalism.