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Forces of Habit
Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
David T. Courtwright
Softbound
288 pages with complete index
Publisher: Harvard University Press; New Ed edition
Date Published: October 30, 2002
A major theme of "Forces of Habit" is that some drugs, such as coffee, tea, tobacco, alcohol, and
chocolate have become "world drugs" due to the efforts of the international pushers known as "the West."
Other drugs, such as qat, kava, and betel have never caught on in the West and, as a result, have not been
made into international commodities complete with huge multi-continent plantations and a complex
distribution system. The West, however, has now decided that some drugs are bad because they don't work
well in complex, industrialized society--cocaine, heroin, etc. Even though the British were once the
major distributors of Opium, literally forcing it on the Chinese, they now oppose it. "Forces of Habit"
is a fascinating but quick tour of many aspects of the history of drugs from a macro perpective.
The book has been gently read, the pages are clean and bright with light wear to it's cover.
Order by ITEM #BKS-163-07
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