Title Forces of habit : drugs and the making of the modern world / David T. Courtwright

Edition First Harvard University Press paperback edition Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : The psychoactive revolution -- The big three : alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine -- The little three : opium, cannabis, and coca -- The puzzle of distribution -- The sorcerer's apprentices -- A trap baited with pleasure -- Escape from commodity hell -- Opiates of the people -- Taxes and smuggling -- About-face : restriction and prohibition -- Licit and illicit drugs Summary Offering a social and biological account of why psychoactive goods proved so seductive, David Courtwright tracks the intersecting paths by which popular drugs entered the stream of global commerce. He shows how the efforts of merchants and colonial planters expanded world supply, drove down prices, and drew millions of less affluent purchasers into the market, effectively democratizing drug consumption. He also shows how Europeans used alcohol as an inducement for native peoples to trade their furs, sell captives into slavery, and negotiate away their lands, and how monarchs taxed drugs to finance their wars and expanding empires. Forces of habit explains why such profitable exploitation has increasingly given way, over the last hundred years, to policies of restriction and prohibition--and how economic and cultural considerations have shaped those policies to determine which drugs are readily accessible, which strictly medicinal, and which forbidden altogether Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-262) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 19, 2020) digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Substance abuse -- History Psychotropic drugs -- History Substance abuse -- Economic aspects Substance abuse -- Social aspects Substance abuse -- Prevention Substance-Related Disorders -- history Psychotropic Drugs -- history Substance-Related Disorders -- economics Substance-Related Disorders -- prevention & control SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- General. PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Addiction. HISTORY -- World. Psychotropic drugs Substance abuse Substance abuse -- Economic aspects Substance abuse -- Prevention Substance abuse -- Social aspects Drugsverslaving. Drugsgebruik. Sociale aspecten. Economische aspecten. Preventie. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674029903 0674029909

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