Forces of Habit

Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

By David T. Courtwright
(Harvard University Press, Hardcover, 9780674004580, 288pp.)

Publication Date: January 2001

Categories: Modern - General, Social History

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Far-reaching, fair-minded, and elegant, this book is a thorough history of the traffic of psychoactive substances, a unique contribution to both world history and drug history. It brings wide research, reasoned judgment, and dry humor to a subject prone to ill-informed and overheated discussions. 25 halftones.
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