| Description |
xii, 244 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Peculiar Substances / Andrew Sherratt -- 1. Alcohol and Its Alternatives: Symbol and Substance in Pre-Industrial Cultures / Andrew Sherratt -- 2. Coca, Beer, Cigars and Yage: Meals and Anti-Meals in an Amerindian Community / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- 3. Nicotian Dreams: The Prehistory and Early History of Tobacco in Eastern North America / Alexander von Gernet -- 4. Efficacy and Concentration: Analogies in Betel Use Among the Fuyuge (Papua New Guinea) / Eric Hirsch -- 5. Kola Nuts: The 'Coffee' of the Central Sudan / Paul E. Lovejoy -- 6. Excitantia: Or, How Enlightenment Europe Took to Soft Drugs / Jordan Goodman -- 7. From Coffeehouse to Parlour: The Consumption of Coffee, Tea and Sugar in North-Western Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Woodruff D. Smith -- 8. Tobacco Use and Tobacco Taxation: A Battle of Interests in Early Modern Europe / Jacob M. Price -- 9. Japan and the World Narcotics Traffic / Kathryn Meyer |
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10. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Cocaine in the United States / David T. Courtwright -- Afterword / Jordan Goodman and Paul E. Lovejoy |
| Summary |
This pioneering collection of original essays explores the rich analytical category of psycho- active substances from challenging historical and anthropological perspectives |
| Analysis |
Drugs History |
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Drugs History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Drug abuse -- History.
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Drug traffic -- History.
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Drugs -- History.
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Psychotropic drugs -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Psychotropic drugs -- History.
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Psychotropic drugs -- Social aspects.
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Psychotropic drugs.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Psychotropic Drugs -- history.
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Psychotropic Drugs.
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Sociology.
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| Author |
Goodman, Jordan.
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Lovejoy, Paul E.
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Sherratt, Andrew, 1946-2006.
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| LC no. |
94042752 |
| ISBN |
0415090393 |
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