Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs 9780197629994

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Автор: Andreas Peter
Название: Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs
ISBN: 9780197629994
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Классификация:

Всеобщая и мировая история

Социальная история и история культуры

Военная история

Международные отношения

ISBN-10: 0197629997
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 352
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 17.01.2022
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 44 b&w halftones; 44 b&w halftones
Размер: 23.88 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Описание: The story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of six drugs: alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine.

There is growing alarm over how drugs empower terrorists, insurgents, militias, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centuries, Peter Andreas reveals that the drugs-conflict nexus is actually an old story, and that powerful states have been its biggest beneficiaries.

In his path-breaking Killer High, Andreas shows how six psychoactive drugs-ranging from old to relatively new, mild to potent, licit to illicit, natural to synthetic-have proven to be particularly important war ingredients. This sweeping history tells the story of war from antiquity to the modern
age through the lens of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine. Beer and wine drenched ancient and medieval battlefields, and the distilling revolution lubricated the conquest and ethnic cleansing of the New World. Tobacco became globalized through soldiering, with soldiers
hooked on smoking and governments hooked on taxing it. Caffeine and opium fueled imperial expansion and warfare. The commercialization of amphetamines in the twentieth century energized soldiers to fight harder, longer, and faster, while cocaine stimulated an increasingly militarized drug war that
produced casualty numbers surpassing most civil wars. As Andreas demonstrates, armed conflict has become progressively more drugged with the introduction, mass production, and global spread of mind-altering substances. As a result, we cannot understand the history of war without including drugs, and
we similarly cannot understand the history of drugs without including war. From ancient brews and battles to meth and modern warfare, drugs and war have grown up together and become addicted to each other.

Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs, Andreas Peter