RT Book
T1 Forces of habit: drugs and the making of the modern world
A1 Courtwright, David T. 1952-
LA English
PP Cambridge, Mass. London
PB Harvard Univ. Press
YR 2001
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/327679905
AB 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
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV4997
SN 0674004582
K1 Substance Abuse : History
K1 Psychotropic Drugs : History
K1 Substance Abuse : Economic aspects
K1 Substance Abuse : Social aspects
K1 Substance Abuse : Prevention
K1 Substance-related Disorders : history
K1 Psychotropic Drugs : history
K1 Substance-related Disorders : economics
K1 Substance-related Disorders : prevention & control
K1 Rauschgift : Drogenmissbrauch : Genussmittel : Geschichte Anfänge-2001
K1 Drogen
K1 Drogenhandel
K1 Prohibition
K1 Alkohol
K1 Kulturgeschichte