戴維·考特萊特,北佛羅裏達大學曆史學教授,著作包括《暴力之地:從邊境到內地城市的單身男人與社會失序》、《黑暗樂園:美國鴉片毒癮的曆史》。
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.
發表於2025-04-26
Forces of Habit 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
這本書從全球近代史的維度很好地說明瞭一個基本問題,那就是近現代的癮品泛濫問題,完全是與資本主義全球擴張結閤在一起的,凡是不能乘上這股商業大潮的癮品,無論其曆史多麼悠久效果多麼神奇毒性多麼強烈,都絕對無法成為真正世界性的問題,事實上它們將隻會是一種地區和部族...
評分01 讀瞭一本有趣的書。一位美國曆史學教授寫的《上癮五百年》,講的是“癮品”在過去的幾百年間是如何改變瞭世界的麵貌,以及或多或少地影響瞭我們每一個人。 那麼什麼是”癮品“? 簡單地說,”癮品“就是那些能讓人”上癮“的東西,比如說,酒精,煙草,咖啡因飲料,大麻,鴉...
評分Ⅰ The Confluence of Psychoactive Resources 20 | 吸煙者代謝咖啡的速度比不吸煙者快50%,所以要頻繁續杯纔能維持同樣的提神效果。許多藥物不但可以彼此取代,還可以提高其他藥物的需求量,所以藥物貿易並不是一種“零和競爭”。 40 | 由於伊斯蘭教禁酒,鴉片乃是比較好的...
評分很感激翻開這本書,因為這本書讓我看到人類的另外一麵,瞭解瞭更多關於癮品以及人類,原來帶著癮品的有色眼鏡看齣來,世界是這樣一種模樣。 這本書非常全麵的介紹瞭各種可以使人得到快樂感覺並最終會上癮的各種癮品,並且簡要的介紹瞭500年以來在各個國傢地區間這些癮品的發展...
評分黃黃的書頁,有一種想吃它的感覺,一個“癮”字的齣現,更讓人覺得渾身癢癢的。在這個浮躁的時代,你是“癮君子”嗎?也許你會說我不是,我不吸毒,可是隻有吸毒的人纔是癮君子嗎?《上癮五百年》會告訴你是“癮君子”,它讓我知道我是“癮君子”,因為我是咖啡的傀儡。 作者...
圖書標籤: 曆史 科普 心理學 DavidT. Courtwright 英文版 飲食 society-social-sci
the key message is powerful. Behind global market and trade, economic forces and additive characteristics of the drugs are so intertwined.
評分有個review不錯,http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108093450620
評分the key message is powerful. Behind global market and trade, economic forces and additive characteristics of the drugs are so intertwined.
評分從煙草在一戰後隨著退伍士兵和雇傭軍風靡整個歐洲,政府屢禁不止最後無奈閤法化正規化,到美國/俄國禁酒令的失敗···就不難理解為什麼大麻會逐漸在西方社會走嚮閤法化···(作者在一開始有提到清朝政府用尖木樁刺進吸煙者的頭,顯然是西方媒體對遠東的蠻夷幻想以訛傳訛吧???尖木樁???
評分從煙草在一戰後隨著退伍士兵和雇傭軍風靡整個歐洲,政府屢禁不止最後無奈閤法化正規化,到美國/俄國禁酒令的失敗···就不難理解為什麼大麻會逐漸在西方社會走嚮閤法化···(作者在一開始有提到清朝政府用尖木樁刺進吸煙者的頭,顯然是西方媒體對遠東的蠻夷幻想以訛傳訛吧???尖木樁???
Forces of Habit 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載