The pursuit of oblivion: a global history of narcotics, 1500-2000
"Although serious in purpose, The Pursuit of Oblivion contains a dazzling array of strange, amusing and macabre stories. It reveals the intimate drug habits of Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Walter Scott, Dickens, Gladstone, Freud, George IV, Queen Victoria, Marilyn Monroe, John Kenneth Galbraith, W...
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| Summary: | "Although serious in purpose, The Pursuit of Oblivion contains a dazzling array of strange, amusing and macabre stories. It reveals the intimate drug habits of Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Walter Scott, Dickens, Gladstone, Freud, George IV, Queen Victoria, Marilyn Monroe, John Kenneth Galbraith, W. H. Auden and Anthony Eden (to name just a few); the role of enterprises such as the East India Company, Jardine-Matheson and Glaxo in distributing drugs (especially opiates); the part played by war in expanding drug use; the origins of the different policies of Britain and the United States, Holland and Switzerland, Thailand and Indonesia; the routes by which narcotics are transported around the world (including a brilliant account of the murderous career of the Colombian cocaine warlord, Pablo Escobar); and the evolution of attitudes towards, and taboos about, illicit substances."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-451) and index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 466 p., [8] p. of plates ill. : 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0297643754 |
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Prologue ix
ONE
Early History i
TWO
Opium during the Enlightenment 19
THREE
The Patent Age of New Inventions 35
FOUR
Nerves, Needles and Victorian Doctors 67
FIVE
Chemistry 94
SIX
Degeneration 112
SEVEN
The Dawn of Prohibition 148
EIGHT
Law breaking 174
NINE
Trafficking 196
TEN
The Age of Anxiety 236
ELEVEN
The First Drugs Czar 274
TWELVE
British Drug Scenes 294
vii
THE PURSUIT OF OBLIVION
THIRTEEN
Presidential Drugs Wars 338
FOURTEEN
So Passe 384
Acknowledgements 403
Notes to Illustrations 405
Notes 409
Index 452
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