Forces of Habit
Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
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. This text 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.
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- ISBN: 978-0-674-01003-1
- EAN: 9780674010031
- Produktnummer: 22237234
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H23.2 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.3 cm 418 g
- Abbildungen: 25 halftones, 1 table
- Gewicht: 418
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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