戴维·考特莱特,北佛罗里达大学历史学教授,著作包括《暴力之地:从边境到内地城市的单身男人与社会失序》、《黑暗乐园:美国鸦片毒瘾的历史》。
发表于2025-02-27
Forces of Habit 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
曾经看过一个直角坐标系,横轴是毒性,纵轴是成瘾性,把各式各样的“瘾品”放在其中对比,其中大麻的成瘾性排在很低的地方,甚至低于烟草和酒精。在各个国家里,各类瘾品受管制的程度也是各不相同的。而这本书大约就是从历史、经济角度梳理这方面的沿革。 一开始读的时候,有一...
评分 评分全书结束的时候,作者将构置瘾品于政治、经济、社会、科技、文化、宗教等多维视角的斑斓图层轰然推开,反溯于我们生活的这个时代及生活在这个时代的人们本身——也许只有这个视角才是最贴切于人本身的初始视角,便因此笼罩上了乡愿般的人的味道;瘾品的历史终究要还原到人...
评分鸦片利润之高,云贵四川财政多倚重之;1906年新政拿它开刀,以重税行之,结果田价暴跌,暴民捣毁了四处税务所,官家努力弹压,民情汹涌。然后听说革命了,四川人民欢欣鼓舞,觉得这下算是自己人当家,总会通情达理让种大烟了。 古希腊人已然学懂得蒸馏法,尔后失...
评分前段时间,国内明星因为吸毒事件闹得沸沸扬扬,作为一个公众人物,他们带来的负面影响还是非常大的。其实自今年以来,因为吸毒被投进监狱的歌手、演员、导演已有不少,而且有的人吸毒史长达数年之久,由此看出毒品的隐有多厉害。 在书中,戴维•考特莱特为我们详细讲述了多...
图书标签: 历史 科普 心理学 DavidT. Courtwright 英文版 饮食 society-social-sci
Why are coffee, tobacco, and marijuana available the world over, but not peyote or qat? Why are alcohol and tobacco legal, but not heroin or cocaine? What drives the drug, and how has it come to be what it is today - a vast, chequered pattern of use and abuse, medicine and recreation, commerce and interdiction? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book provides the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet's psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines. Offering a social and biological account of why psychoactive goods proved so seductive, David Courtwright tracks the intersecting paths by which popular drugs entered the stream of global commerce. He shows how the efforts of merchants and colonial planters expanded world supply, drove down prices, and drew millions of less affluent purchasers into the market, effectively democratizing drug consumption. He also shows how Europeans used alcohol as an inducement for native peoples to trade their furs, sell captives into slavery, and negotiate away their lands, and how monarchs taxed drugs to finance their wars and expanding empires. This text explains why such profitable exploitation has increasingly given way, over the last hundred years, to policies of restriction and prohibition - and how economic and cultural considerations have shaped those policies to determine which drugs are readily accessible, which strictly medicinal, and which forbidden altogether.
有个review不错,http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108093450620
评分从资本扩张的角度看各种成瘾物质影响力、法律管理力度等如何形成。详细笔记见Evernote
评分从资本扩张的角度看各种成瘾物质影响力、法律管理力度等如何形成。详细笔记见Evernote
评分the key message is powerful. Behind global market and trade, economic forces and additive characteristics of the drugs are so intertwined.
评分从烟草在一战后随着退伍士兵和雇佣军风靡整个欧洲,政府屡禁不止最后无奈合法化正规化,到美国/俄国禁酒令的失败···就不难理解为什么大麻会逐渐在西方社会走向合法化···(作者在一开始有提到清朝政府用尖木桩刺进吸烟者的头,显然是西方媒体对远东的蛮夷幻想以讹传讹吧???尖木桩???
Forces of Habit 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书