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Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
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Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (2001) (edit title/settings)

by David T. Courtwright (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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THE EXPANSION OF OCEANGOING commerce is the single most important fact about the early modern world.

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  1. David T. Courtwright (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0674004582
Page Count: 288

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