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

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Harvard University Press, 30.6.2009 - 288 sivua
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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The Psychoactive Revolution
1
The Confluence of Psychoactive Resources
7
Drugs and Commerce
67
Drugs and Power
133
Bibliographic Note
211
Abbreviations
215
Notes
217
Illustration Credits
263
Index
265
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