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David T. Courtwright 出版社: Harvard University Press 副标题: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World 出版年: 2002-10-30 页数: 288 定价: USD 28.50 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780674010031
Why are coffee, tobacco, and marijuana available the world over, but not peyote or qat? Why are alcohol and tobacco legal, but not heroin or cocaine? What drives the drug, and how has it come to be what it is today - a vast, chequered pattern of use and abuse, medicine and recreation, commerce and interdiction? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent me...
Why are coffee, tobacco, and marijuana available the world over, but not peyote or qat? Why are alcohol and tobacco legal, but not heroin or cocaine? What drives the drug, and how has it come to be what it is today - a vast, chequered pattern of use and abuse, medicine and recreation, commerce and interdiction? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book provides the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet's psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines. 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. 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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2 有用 倏逝波 2016-06-09 11:02:01
1.对人类具有成瘾性威胁的植物本身是为了令食草动物产生幻觉，从而自我保护 2.不同类的成瘾药物有相互抵消的效果（令我想起茶的醒酒作用）3.现在药物的成瘾（危害）性与受禁程度并不成正比，除却偶然因素，权力的干涉太重要了。（对我个人而言，这本书格外写实而亲切，《毒枭》中哥伦比亚与美国的纠葛、《广告狂人》中的Lucky Strike烟草公司与麦迪逊大街的合作与解散，竟然都有所提及。）
1 有用 兔豹宝 2019-07-10 11:11:52
从烟草在一战后随着退伍士兵和雇佣军风靡整个欧洲，政府屡禁不止最后无奈合法化正规化，到美国/俄国禁酒令的失败···就不难理解为什么大麻会逐渐在西方社会走向合法化···（作者在一开始有提到清朝政府用尖木桩刺进吸烟者的头，显然是西方媒体对远东的蛮夷幻想以讹传讹吧？？？尖木桩？？？
1 有用 bona faith 2016-08-04 15:23:02
有个review不错，http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108093450620
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0 有用 若耶之溪 2017-08-14 21:27:11
the key message is powerful. Behind global market and trade, economic forces and additive characteristics of the drugs are so intertwined.