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

ISBN: 9780674010031 | 0674010035
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 10/30/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
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.
Introduction: The Psychoactive Revolution1(8)
Part I: The Confluence of Psychoactive Resources
The Big Three: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine
9(22)
The Little Three: ... MORE
31(22)
The Puzzle of Distribution
53(16)
Part II: Drugs and Commerce
The Sorcerer's Apprentices
69(22)
A Trap Baited with Pleasure
91(21)
Escape from Commodity Hell
112(23)
Part III: Drugs and Power
Opiates of the People
135(17)
Taxes and Smuggling
152(14)
About-Face: Restriction and Prohibition
166(21)
Licit and Illicit Drugs
187(24)
Bibliographic Note211(4)
Abbreviations215(2)
Notes217(46)
Illustration Credits263(2)
Index265


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