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High Society : Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Thames & Hudson, Limited,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; About the Author; Other Titles of Interest; Contents; Foreword; A Universal Impulse; High Societies; The Evolution of Drugs; Animal Intoxication; Drugs and Shamanism; Drugs and Culture; The Culture of Kava; The Culture of Betel; Drug Prohibitions; Drug Subcultures; The Cultures of Ecstasy; From Apothecary to Laboratory; What is a Drug?; Drugs in Antiquity; Renaissance Herbals; Witches and Flying Ointments; The Invention of Laudanum; Linnaeus and the Enlightenment; The First Synthetic Drugs; Opium and the Romantics; The Club des Haschischins; Freud and Cocaine
- Addiction and Drug ControlMescaline, LSD and Beyond; Drugs of the Future; The Drugs Trade; Drugs of the New World; The Psychoactive Revolution; Tobacco in China, Tea in Europe; The Opium Wars; The Anti-Opium campaign; Temperance and Prohibition; The 'War on Drugs'; Epilogue: The Decline of Tobacco; Notes and Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Index; Copyright