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They Are Beginning To Learn The Use Of Tobacco, Terence Hays
They Are Beginning To Learn The Use Of Tobacco, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
European colonization attracts laborers whose performance was enhanced by their employers through the use of drugs. Tobacco provided Europeans a way to manipulate populations engaged in new work activities in the non-Western world. Hays argues that control of native labor was the result of control of an addictive American commercial product.