Shooting up: a short history of drugs and war

by Kamieński, Łukasz

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Full title :Shooting up : a short history of drugs and war / Łukasz Kamienski.

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Publication Date:2016.

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Description:xxix, 381 páginas ; : 25 cm

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ISBN:9780190263478, 0190263474
oclc:on1002186934
Dewey Decimal:355.129

Pharmacologically enhanced militaries -- Alcohol -- From pre-modern times to the end of the Second World War -- Pre-modern times: opium, hashish, mushrooms and coca -- Napoleon in Egypt and the adventures of Europeans with hashish -- The Opium Wars -- The American Civil War, opium, morphine and the "soldiers' disease" -- The colonial wars and the terrifying "barbarians" -- From coca to cocaine: the First World War -- The Second World War -- The Cold War -- From the Korean War to the war over mind control -- In search of wonderful new techniques and weapons -- Vietnam: the first true pharmacological war -- The Red Army in Afghanistan and the problem of drug addiction -- Towards the present -- Contemporary irregular armies empowered by drugs -- Intoxicated child soldiers -- Drugs in the contemporary American Armed Forces -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: war as a drug.

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