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

Courtwright, David T.

ISBN 10: 0674004582 / ISBN 13: 9780674004580

Published by Harvard University Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674004582
• ISBN 13: 9780674004580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

David T. Courtwright is Presidential Professor Emeritus at the University of North Florida and the author of Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America and Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (both from Harvard). He was an inaugural recipient of a grant from the highly competitive NEH Public Scholar Program and is a regular media commentator on the history of addiction.