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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Global history of narcotics, 1500-2000".
- catalog contributor b12353033.
- catalog contributor b12353034.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Early history -- 2. Opium during the enlightenment -- 3. The patent age of new inventions -- 4. Nerves, needles and Victorian doctors -- 5. Chemistry -- 6. Degeneration -- 7. The dawn of prohibition -- 8. Law-breaking -- 9. Trafficking -- 10. The age of anxiety -- 11. The first drugs czar -- 12. British drug scenes -- 13. Presidential drugs wars -- 14. So passé.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-451) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 466 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0297643754".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson,".
- catalog subject "362.29309 21".
- catalog subject "Drug abuse History.".
- catalog subject "Drug control History.".
- catalog subject "Drug traffic History.".
- catalog subject "Drugs of abuse History.".
- catalog subject "HV5801 .D25 2001".
- catalog subject "Narcotics History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Early history -- 2. Opium during the enlightenment -- 3. The patent age of new inventions -- 4. Nerves, needles and Victorian doctors -- 5. Chemistry -- 6. Degeneration -- 7. The dawn of prohibition -- 8. Law-breaking -- 9. Trafficking -- 10. The age of anxiety -- 11. The first drugs czar -- 12. British drug scenes -- 13. Presidential drugs wars -- 14. So passé.".
- catalog title "Global history of narcotics, 1500-2000".
- catalog title "The pursuit of oblivion : a global history of narcotics 1500-2000 / Richard Davenport-Hines.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".