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Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (Revised edition)

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Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World - Courtwright, David T
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What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet's psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines.

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Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World 2002, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674010031

Revised edition

Trade paperback

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World 2001, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674004580

Hardcover