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