Professor Jim Mills
History
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Publications
- Colonialism, consumption, and drug control in Asia
- Mills James H
- The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History (2022) (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190842642.013.14
- Cannabis : Global Histories
- Mills James, Richert Lucas
- (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12102.001.0001
- From "Papaber Errat" to "Tincture of Opium" : poppies, opiates, and pain in early modern Scotland (ca. 1664–1785)
- Mills James H
- The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs Vol 35, pp. 91-114 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1086/712739
- Patients, carers and consumers : agency and the history of pharmaceuticals
- Mills James H
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Vol 76 (2019)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.03.001
- Colonizing cannabis : medication, taxation, intoxication and oblivion, c. 1839-1955
- Mills James H
- Locating the Medical Explorations in South Asian History (2018) (2018)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199486717.003.0009
- Decolonising drugs in Asia : the case of cocaine in colonial India
- Mills James
- Third World Quarterly (2017)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1357116
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Professional Activities
- South Asia's Lost Cocaine? Coca leaf and colonial environments in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), c. 1870 to 1894.
- Invited speaker
- 22/8/2023
- Consuming cocaine in colonial India: South Asia's market for the nineteenth-century's last wonder-drug, c. 1885 to c. 1914.
- Invited speaker
- 24/6/2023
- Cocaine markets in Colonial India: Industry, commerce and consumption, 1885 to 1911.
- Keynote speaker
- 23/8/2022
- The "Global Turn" in Drugs and Alcohol History Roundtable
- Speaker
- 17/6/2022
- Before the Ban: cocaine markets in colonial India, 1885-1900.
- Invited speaker
- 15/6/2022
- Global Histories of Drugs: Why, and what next?
- Organiser
- 6/10/2021
Projects
- SA-UK/MH: Medical Humanities co-working between South Africa
- Mills, Jim (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
- Changing Minds: Psychoactive Substances in African and Asian History
- Mills, Jim (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
- Cannabis: The Global Histories Network
- Mills, Jim (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2021
- Building Shared Futures: Co-developing Medical Humanities in China and the UK
- Mills, Jim (Principal Investigator) Kelly, Laura (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2024
- Christopher Cavin - The Charles Henry Brent Papers and the Rise of International Drug Control Policy
- Young, Craig (Principal Investigator) Mills, Jim (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2017
- The Shanghai Initiative: Medical Humanities futures in the UK and Asia
- Mills, Jim (Principal Investigator)
- 02-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2021