Forces of Habit

Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet’s psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-10-30
Mått:155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674010031
Utmärkelser:Nominated for Pulitzer Prizes 2002

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David T. Courtwright is Presidential Professor Emeritus at the University of North Florida and the author of Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America and Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (both from Harvard). He was an inaugural recipient of a grant from the highly competitive NEH Public Scholar Program and is a regular media commentator on the history of addiction.

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This book offers a fascinating, entertaining, and perceptive account of how politics, profit, and pleasure have shaped contemporary attitudes about psychoactive substances… In Forces of Habit [Courtwright] reviews, with calm reason and humor, histories of the use and abuse of a complete spectrum of psychoactive substances including alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opiates, cannabis, cocaine, and hallucinogens… Courtwright presents a fresh and discerning discussion of contemporary issues and problems surrounding both illicit and legalized drugs.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The Psychoactive Revolution Part I: The Confluence of Psychoactive Resources 1. The Big Three: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine 2. The Little Three: Opium, Cannabis, and Coca