Benjamin Breen

The Age of Intoxication

Origins of the Global Drug Trade

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• The Early Modern Americas
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780812251784
• ISBN-10: 0812251784
• Artikelnr.: 56398531

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Breen

Inhaltsangabe

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