Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Hemp: From Antiquity to 1683
Chapter 2: 1690—1865: The Emergence of American Hemp and the Rise of Russian Hemp
Chapter 3: Hemp Production from 1865 to the end of WWII
Chapter 4: Twenty first Century Economic Competition: Hemp goes High Tech

About the Author

Nadra Hashim is reviewer for the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.

Reviews

Hashim has written a useful overview of global hemp production from antiquity to the present, including the current public policy controversies in the United States. . . . Readers interested in hemp production as it relates to labor, manufacturing, and marketing worldwide, with an emphasis on the United States, will find this study a good place to begin.

This book is a readable and important history of the uneven rise and fall of hemp farming and production in the United States. Hashim skillfully situates hemp in the larger political, economic, and labor worlds that determined its fate as both a viable crop for American farmers and a marketable resource in the world economy.