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Détails
Type de document: | Livre |
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Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs: |
Richard Davenport-Hines |
ISBN: | 9780393325454 0393325458 |
Numéro OCLC: | 1080414444 |
Description: | 576 str. : ilustr. ; 24 cm. |
Contenu: | 1. Early history -- 2. Opium during the enlightenment -- 3. The patent age of new inventions -- 4. Nerves, needles and Victorian doctors -- 5. Chemistry -- 6. Degeneration -- 7. The dawn of prohibition -- 8. Law-breaking -- 9. Trafficking -- 10. The age of anxiety -- 11. The first drugs czar -- 12. British drug scenes -- 13. Presidential drugs wars -- 14. So passé. |
Responsabilité: | Richard Davenport-Hines. |
Critiques
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"Pragmatic and persuasive, full of fascinating lore and intelligent interpretation... overwhelming evidence and penetrating analysis." -- Boston Globe "Factually detailed and rich in anecdote." -- Boston Phoenix "A good read: lively, anecdotal, and written with the reader in mind." -- D.M. Fahey - Choice "A well-drawn, comprehensive account of a troubling subject." -- Kirkus Reviews "The best general account of the subject...thoroughly researched and expertly written." -- Roy Porter - Literary Review "Starred Review. A sharply opinionated history of drugs...encyclopedic in scope and varied in perspective...difficult to dismiss." -- Publishers Weekly "An impressively researched and exhaustive volume...[that] should be considered definitive." -- San Diego Union Tribune "The most important study on this subject in years, perhaps ever." -- Phillip Knightley - Sunday Times [London] "His book is a technical triumph: well researched, well-written, well presented. . . . Moreover, it is convincing." -- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto - The Independent "Highly absorbing...an extremely impressive work." -- Christine Keneally - The New York Times "America has exported bad drug policy since the Civil War, the book shows." -- The Week "Accomplished with authority and flair." -- Virginia Quarterly Review "A stern and sustained history...first-rate scholarship...a powerful indictment of mostly failed policy." -- Washington Post "An amazing, knock-your-socks-off book, argued with depth and cunning....A stunning and vital book." -- James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California "[A] highly literate and readable account...an author who is thoroughly conversant with the international and intercontinental aspects of drug policy." -- Philip Jenkins, author of Synthetic Panics Lire la suite...

