{"product_id":"emperors-of-dreams-drugs-in-the-nineteenth-century-9781873982488","title":"Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/strong\u003e by Jay, Mike. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781873982488.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColeridge and de Quincey swilling bitter draughts of opium, Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes dallying with cocaine, Baudelaire and Gautier rapt in hashish fantasies behind velvet curtains, even Queen Victoria swallowing her prescription dose of cannabis - these snapshot images are familiar, but what is the story which lies behind them? How did cannabis and cocaine, opium and ether, mushrooms and mescaline enter the modern world, and what was their impact on the nineteenth centurys dreams and nightmares?\nEmperors of Dreams tells the stories of how all these substances were first discovered, and paints a fresh and startling picture both of todays illicit drugs and of the nineteenth century. It shows that the age of Empire and Victorian values was awash with legal narcotics, stimulants and psychedelics, and traces their progress through the rapidly evolving worlds of science and colonial expansion, the demi-mondes of popular subculture and literary bohemia, and the rising tide of temperance and prohibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dedalus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44650614423605,"sku":"ByrdShop_1873982488","price":225.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1873982488_66dcacf1-a7d3-45be-a0b9-6a728094f41b.jpg?v=1784308149","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/emperors-of-dreams-drugs-in-the-nineteenth-century-9781873982488","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}