戴维·考特莱特,北佛罗里达大学历史学教授,著作包括《暴力之地:从边境到内地城市的单身男人与社会失序》、《黑暗乐园:美国鸦片毒瘾的历史》。
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.
每天早上,到了办公室,我会很自然地喝一杯咖啡。而在家呢!就沏上一杯龙井。 一些男同事(也包括部分女同事)每天会有几次时间站在办公室的大门外抽烟,轻松地说笑着,在烟雾中放松一会儿。 家里装修时,我去工地现场,发现装修工人尽管吃着简单的萝卜、白菜、馒头或米饭,...
评分这本还是蛮有启发性的。 开始当作解答“为什么”的书来读,想要了解关于人类和瘾品的关系,我们为什么会上瘾:嗜咖啡、糖、烟草、买买买……读到后面便会联想到郑也夫的那本《后物欲时代的来临》,它们有共同的主题:对消费主义全球漫滥的思考。 海洛...
评分这本书从全球近代史的维度很好地说明了一个基本问题,那就是近现代的瘾品泛滥问题,完全是与资本主义全球扩张结合在一起的,凡是不能乘上这股商业大潮的瘾品,无论其历史多么悠久效果多么神奇毒性多么强烈,都绝对无法成为真正世界性的问题,事实上它们将只会是一种地区和部族...
评分原以为瘾品的传播仅仅因为它会让人上瘾、欲罢不能,而本书揭示了瘾品在全世界范围快速泛滥的根本原因是资本主义有目的地推动。它制造出人类的欲望,用瘾品满足人类的欲望,再挑起人类更大的欲望,再用更多的瘾品满足这更大的欲望,在这样无尽的循环中,资本攫取了极大...
评分黄黄的书页,有一种想吃它的感觉,一个“瘾”字的出现,更让人觉得浑身痒痒的。在这个浮躁的时代,你是“瘾君子”吗?也许你会说我不是,我不吸毒,可是只有吸毒的人才是瘾君子吗?《上瘾五百年》会告诉你是“瘾君子”,它让我知道我是“瘾君子”,因为我是咖啡的傀儡。 作者...
从资本扩张的角度看各种成瘾物质影响力、法律管理力度等如何形成。详细笔记见Evernote
评分从烟草在一战后随着退伍士兵和雇佣军风靡整个欧洲,政府屡禁不止最后无奈合法化正规化,到美国/俄国禁酒令的失败···就不难理解为什么大麻会逐渐在西方社会走向合法化···(作者在一开始有提到清朝政府用尖木桩刺进吸烟者的头,显然是西方媒体对远东的蛮夷幻想以讹传讹吧???尖木桩???
评分有个review不错,http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108093450620
评分有个review不错,http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108093450620
评分从资本扩张的角度看各种成瘾物质影响力、法律管理力度等如何形成。详细笔记见Evernote
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