图书标签: 历史 科普 心理学 DavidT. Courtwright 英文版 饮食 society-social-sci
发表于2025-04-26
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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.
戴维·考特莱特,北佛罗里达大学历史学教授,著作包括《暴力之地:从边境到内地城市的单身男人与社会失序》、《黑暗乐园:美国鸦片毒瘾的历史》。
the key message is powerful. Behind global market and trade, economic forces and additive characteristics of the drugs are so intertwined.
评分有个review不错,http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108093450620
评分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???
评分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???
评分有个review不错,http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108093450620
嘘,严肃点,这是本很学术的书。 当初看到这本书时,吸引我的是正题下面的一句话“烟、酒、咖啡和鸦片的历史”,我原本以为这只是一本普通的工具书,像常规的那样,介绍各类酒的产地、品种、特色、品牌以及背后故事等,但是不同的是这次多了烟、咖啡和鸦片,而且它不是单纯的工...
评分很感激翻开这本书,因为这本书让我看到人类的另外一面,了解了更多关于瘾品以及人类,原来带着瘾品的有色眼镜看出来,世界是这样一种模样。 这本书非常全面的介绍了各种可以使人得到快乐感觉并最终会上瘾的各种瘾品,并且简要的介绍了500年以来在各个国家地区间这些瘾品的发展...
评分说在前面的话: 这本书读了有整整两周,一直不敢下笔。想来也是有原因的:其一,笔者不属于任何“瘾品”(广义上的上瘾物质,后文会有详解)的服用者;其二,笔者没有史学功底(我专于英语与法学),于此下笔就怕耽误各位。但笔者找到了出口一一破解之:奥运会游泳冠军的教练可...
评分 评分鸦片利润之高,云贵四川财政多倚重之;1906年新政拿它开刀,以重税行之,结果田价暴跌,暴民捣毁了四处税务所,官家努力弹压,民情汹涌。然后听说革命了,四川人民欢欣鼓舞,觉得这下算是自己人当家,总会通情达理让种大烟了。 古希腊人已然学懂得蒸馏法,尔后失...
Forces of Habit pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025