Introduction: Hashish, Islam, and Violence in the French Colonial Mind

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Hashish, Islam, and Violence in the French Colonial Mind 3
5. Competing Strains: The Two Histories of Cannabis in Early Modern France 19
6. Jacques-François “Abdallah” Menou, Colonial Mimicry, and the First Anti-Cannabis Law in French History 49
7. Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy and the Myth of the Hachichins: Orientalizing Hashish in France, 1800–40 83
8. “A Drug Not to Be Neglected”: Medicalizing Hashish in France, 1810–50 106
9. “Empire of Hallucinations and Illusions”: De-medicalizing Hashish in France, 1840–60 150
10. The Hachichins of Algiers: The Criminalization of Hashish in French Algeria, 1840–80 187
11. Conclusion 216
12. Notes 223
13. Index 297