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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
R P T Davenport-Hines |
ISBN: | 0393325458 9780393325454 |
OCLC Number: | 54536056 |
Description: | 576 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Early history -- Opium during the enlightenment -- The patent age of new inventions -- Nerves, needles and Victorian doctors -- Chemistry -- Degeneration -- The dawn of prohibition -- Law-breaking -- Trafficking -- The age of anxiety -- The first drugs czar -- British drug scenes -- Presidential drugs wars -- So passé. |
Other Titles: | Global history of narcotics |
Responsibility: | Richard Davenport-Hines. |
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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 Read more...

