Forces of habit
drugs and the making of the modern world
by David T. Courtwright
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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.
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Prévention, Substance abuse, Psychotropic Drugs, Aspect économique, Psychotropes, Polytoxicomanie, Social aspects, Sociale aspecten, Prevention & control, Preventie, Economics, Aspect social, Prevention, History, Drugsgebruik, Drugsverslaving, Substance-Related Disorders, Histoire, Economische aspecten, Economic aspects, Drug addiction, Substance abuse, prevention| Edition | Availability |
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Forces of habit: drugs and the making of the modern world
2001, Harvard University Press
in English
0674004582 9780674004580
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-213) and index.
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