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

paperbackOctober 1, 2002
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ISBN-13: 9780674010031 ISBN-10: 0674010035
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Binding
paperback
Published
October 1, 2002
Weight
2.3 lbs
Dimensions
23.50×1.80×15.60 cm

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Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World by Courtwright. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780674010031.

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.