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The age of intoxication : origins of the global drug trade / Benjamin Breen.
- Format:
- 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.
- Pharmacy--History.
- Pharmacy.
- International trade--History.
- International trade.
- Drugs--Social aspects--History.
- Drug control--History.
- Drug control.
- Drug Trafficking--history.
- Drug and Narcotic Control--history.
- Drug Misuse--history.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Medical Subjects:
- Drug Trafficking--history.
- Drug and Narcotic Control--history.
- Drug Misuse--history.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- At the statue of Adamastor
- Part I: Inventions of drugs. Searching for drugs: inventing quina in seventeenth-century Amazonia
- Selling drugs: early modern apothecaries and the limits of commodification
- Fetishizing drugs: feitiçaria, healing, and intoxication in West Central Africa
- Part II: Altered states. Occult qualities: British natural philosophers and Portuguese drugs
- Uses of intoxication in the Enlightenment
- Three ways of looking at opium
- Drug pasts and futures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-262) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780812296624 (electronic bk.)
- 0812296621 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90103366985
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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