Forces of Habit

Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-674-01003-1
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Courtwright, David T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Courtwright, David T.
David T. Courtwright is Presidential Professor Emeritus at the University of North Florida and the author of <i>Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America</i> and <i>Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World</i> (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.