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Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

By David T. Courtwright

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0674004582, 9780674004580, 0674010035, 9780674010031
LCC
HV4997 .C68 2001
Open Library ID
OL24873567M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2332919 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
289\289
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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. (20010318)

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