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Coleridge 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 century's dreams and nightmares?
Emperors of Dreams tells the stories of how all these substances were first discovered, and paints a fresh and startling picture both of today's 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.
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Mike Jay has written a book on the sacred plant drugs in Indo-European prehistory, an anthology of drug literature, and co-edited a collection of essays on evolution, decadence, atheism, the unconscious, feminism, sexology and futurism. He has also written on the social history of drugs for The Guardian, The Independent, Arena, Fortean Times and the International Journal of Drug Policy, among others.
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- PublisherDedalus Limited
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1873982488
- ISBN 13 9781873982488
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages277
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