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

Professor of History David T Courtwright
Harvard
 9780674010031
0-674-01003-5

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.

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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.