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The age of intoxication : origins of the global drug trade / Benjamin Breen.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Breen, Benjamin, 1985- author.
- Series:
- Early modern Americas
- The early modern Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug traffic--History--16th century.
- Drug traffic.
- Drug traffic--History--17th century.
- Drug traffic--History--18th century.
- Drugs--History.
- Drugs.
- History.
- Pharmacy--History.
- Pharmacy.
- International trade--History.
- International trade.
- Drugs--Social aspects--History.
- Drug control--History.
- Drug control.
- Drugs--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "The book traces the drug trade's emergence on a world stage, the main points of contact and conflict that key early modern drugs initiated, and the accompanying backlashes"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I Inventions of Drugs
- Chapter 1 Searching for Drugs: Inventing Quina in Seventeenth-Century Amazonia p. 15
- Chapter 2 Selling Drugs: Early Modern Apothecaries and the Limits of Commodification p. 41
- Chapter 3 Fetishizing Drugs: Feitiçaria, Healing, and Intoxication in West Central Africa p. 65
- Part II Altered States
- Chapter 4 Occult Qualities: British Natural Philosophers and Portuguese Drugs p. 95
- Chapter 5 The Uses of Intoxication in the Enlightenment p. 123
- Chapter 6 Three Ways of Looking at Opium p. 153.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812251784
- 0812251784
- OCLC:
- 1097958888
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