Age of Intoxication - Origins of the Global Drug Trade

Benjamin Breen teaches history at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Sommario

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

Info autore

Benjamin Breen is Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Benjamin Breen
• Editore: University of pennsylvania pr
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.12.2019
• EAN: 9780812251784
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5178-4
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: The Early Modern Americas
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia internazionale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918