Forces of Habit : Drugs and the Making of the Modern World / David T. Courtwright.
Courtwright, David T., author.
2009
QL737.P96 B39 2008eb
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Title Forces of Habit : Drugs and the Making of the Modern World / David T. Courtwright.
Author Courtwright, David T., author.
ISBN 9780674029903
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674029903
Published Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2001
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (288 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674029903 doi
Call Number QL737.P96 B39 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 599.88/1513
Summary 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.
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Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
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
3. The Puzzle of Distribution
Part II: Drugs and Commerce
4. The Sorcerer's Apprentices
5. A Trap Baited with Pleasure
6. Escape from Commodity Hell
Part III: Drugs and Power
7. Opiates of the People
8. Taxes and Smuggling
9. About-Face: Restriction and Prohibition
10. Licit and Illicit Drugs
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