Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
of David T. Courtwright
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.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 288 pages
- Publisher Harvard University Press
- Publication Date October 30th 2002
- First Publication 11/06/01
- Language English
- ISBN 9780674010031
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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