| Edition |
1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-262) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : The psychoactive revolution -- Big three : alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine -- Little three : opium, cannabis, and coca -- Puzzle of distribution -- Sorcerer's apprentices -- A trap baited with pleasure -- Escape from commodity hell -- Opiates of the people -- Taxes and smuggling -- About-face : restriction and prohibition -- Licit and illicit drugs. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Substance abuse -- History.
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Substance abuse. |
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History. |
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Psychotropic drugs -- History.
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Psychotropic drugs. |
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Substance abuse -- Economic aspects.
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Substance abuse -- Economic aspects. |
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Substance abuse -- Social aspects.
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Substance abuse -- Social aspects. |
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Substance abuse -- Prevention.
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Substance abuse -- Prevention. |
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Substance-Related Disorders -- history. |
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Psychotropic Drugs -- history. |
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Substance-Related Disorders -- economics. |
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Substance-Related Disorders -- prevention & control. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Courtwright, David T., 1952- Forces of habit. 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002 0674004582 9780674004580 (DLC) 00061466 (OCoLC)56619748 |
| ISBN |
9780674029903 (electronic book) |
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0674029909 (electronic book) |
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0674004582 (alkaline paper) |
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9780674004580 (alkaline paper) |
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0674010035 (paperback) |
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9780674010031 (paperback) |
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