Discusses the use of drugs in ancient Greece and Rome, including the historical social attitudes behind drug use and how they may have led to artistic and cultural advances in these civilizations.
From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure transformed the social structure of …
This collection of new essays explores the complex and contested histories of drugs and narcotics in societies from ancient Greece to the present day. The Greek term pharmakon means both medicament and poison. The book shows how this verbal ambivalence encapsulates the ambiguity…
Ancient psychoactive substances
This book details the traditional and sacred use of psychoactive substances by peoples in the ancient past through the lens of archaeology.
Ancient psychoactive substances
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Ancient psychoactive substances
This book details the traditional and sacred use of psychoactive substances by peoples in the ancient past through the lens of archaeology. "Mind-altering substances have been used by humans for thousands of years. In fact, ancient societies sometimes encouraged the consumption…
Ancient Psychoactive Substances
This book details the traditional and sacred use of psychoactive substances by peoples in the ancient past through the lens of archaeology.
Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to e…
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, opi…
