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The Age of Intoxication - Origins of the Global Drug Trade

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From the sickly sweet tobacco that helped finance the Atlantic slave trade to the inebriating cannabis that East Indies merchants sold in coffeehouses, drugs have been entangled with science and commodification for five centuries. The Age of Intoxication explores the origins, and continuing impact, of the first global era of drugs.


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Introduction. At the Statue of Adamastor

Part I. Inventions of Drugs

Chapter 1. Searching for Drugs: Inventing Quina in Seventeenth-Century Amazonia

Chapter 2. Selling Drugs: Early Modern Apothecaries and the Limits of Commodification

Chapter 3. Fetishizing Drugs: Feitiçaria, Healing, and Intoxication in West Central Africa

Part II. Altered States

Chapter 4. Occult Qualities: British Natural Philosophers and Portuguese Drugs

Chapter 5. Uses of Intoxication in the Enlightenment

Chapter 6. Three Ways of Looking at Opium

Conclusion. Drug Pasts and Futures

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments


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Benjamin Breen

Product details

Authors Benjamin Breen
Publisher University of pennsylvania pr
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.07.2021
 
EAN 9780812224986
ISBN 978-0-8122-2498-6
No. of pages 288
Series The Early Modern Americas
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918
Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy

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