Forces of Habit : : Drugs and the Making of the Modern World / / David T. Courtwright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Courtwright, David T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Introduction: The Psychoactive Revolution --; Part I: The Confluence of Psychoactive Resources --; 1. The Big Three: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine --; 2. The Little Three: Opium, Cannabis, and Coca --; 3. The Puzzle of Distribution --; Part II: Drugs and Commerce --; 4. The Sorcerer's Apprentices --; 5. A Trap Baited with Pleasure --; 6. Escape from Commodity Hell --; Part III: Drugs and Power --; 7. Opiates of the People --; 8. Taxes and Smuggling --; 9. About-Face: Restriction and Prohibition --; 10. Licit and Illicit Drugs --; Bibliographic Note --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Illustration Credits --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674029903; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674029903?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David T. Courtwright.

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.