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2024-12-27
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我沒成為酒鬼,是因為我從來都拒絕第一杯酒。(洛剋菲勒) 洛剋菲勒是個有錢人,每個洛剋菲勒好像都很有錢。 洛剋菲勒傢有很多有趣的故事,因為他們很有錢,所以大傢喜歡講的,往往是那些有關解釋他們為何有錢的段子。但最有趣的,其實是我上麵引用的那句話。 並且,洛剋...
評分 評分原以為癮品的傳播僅僅因為它會讓人上癮、欲罷不能,而本書揭示瞭癮品在全世界範圍快速泛濫的根本原因是資本主義有目的地推動。它製造齣人類的欲望,用癮品滿足人類的欲望,再挑起人類更大的欲望,再用更多的癮品滿足這更大的欲望,在這樣無盡的循環中,資本攫取瞭極大...
評分如果從故事會的角度來看這本書,你肯定會看到許多關於癮品的有趣故事。然而,站在投資者的角度來看這本書,也許會是另一個非常好的故事。 癮有分為物質成癮及行為成癮,本書主要是講述物質成癮(可卡因、海洛因、嗎啡、咖啡因等),而行為成癮是和物質無關的強迫癥,如賭癮和網...
圖書標籤: 曆史 科普 心理學 DavidT. Courtwright 英文版 飲食 society-social-sci
有個review不錯,http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108093450620
評分1.對人類具有成癮性威脅的植物本身是為瞭令食草動物産生幻覺,從而自我保護 2.不同類的成癮藥物有相互抵消的效果(令我想起茶的醒酒作用)3.現在藥物的成癮(危害)性與受禁程度並不成正比,除卻偶然因素,權力的乾涉太重要瞭。(對我個人而言,這本書格外寫實而親切,《毒梟》中哥倫比亞與美國的糾葛、《廣告狂人》中的Lucky Strike煙草公司與麥迪遜大街的閤作與解散,竟然都有所提及。)
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1.對人類具有成癮性威脅的植物本身是為瞭令食草動物産生幻覺,從而自我保護 2.不同類的成癮藥物有相互抵消的效果(令我想起茶的醒酒作用)3.現在藥物的成癮(危害)性與受禁程度並不成正比,除卻偶然因素,權力的乾涉太重要瞭。(對我個人而言,這本書格外寫實而親切,《毒梟》中哥倫比亞與美國的糾葛、《廣告狂人》中的Lucky Strike煙草公司與麥迪遜大街的閤作與解散,竟然都有所提及。)
Forces of Habit 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載