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

Courtwright

 
9780674010031: Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

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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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David T. Courtwright is Presidential Professor Emeritus at the University of North Florida and the author of Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America and Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (both from Harvard). He was an inaugural recipient of a grant from the highly competitive NEH Public Scholar Program and is a regular media commentator on the history of addiction.

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ISBN 10:  0674004582 ISBN 13:  9780674004580
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2001
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