Making liquor isn’t rocket science: some raw materials, a stove, and a few jury-rigged pots are all that’s really needed. So when the colonial regime in tur

Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures

Drugs and Empires introduces new research from a range of historians that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It

An analysis of the challenge that India's poison culture posed for colonial rule and toxicology's creation of a public role for science.

The Imperial Security State explores an important but under-explored dimension of British imperialism - its information system and the close links between milit