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

hardcover – March 23, 2001
by Courtwright, David T.
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ISBN-13: 9780674004580 ISBN-10: 0674004582
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Binding
hardcover
Published
March 23, 2001
Weight
1.3 lbs
Dimensions
24.10×2.50×16.50 cm

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Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World by Courtwright, David T.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780674004580.

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 planets psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines.