Author: Maurice Helbrant
Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
Keywords: america, addiction, agent, narcotic
Number of Pages: 319
Published: 1981-02
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0405135890
ISBN-13: 9780405135897
Author: David F. Musto
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: control, narcotic, origins, disease, american
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1999-04-22
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195125096
ISBN-13: 9780195125092
The American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the United States. Supporting the theory that Americans’ attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relationz between public outcry and the creation of prohibitive drug laws from the end of the Civil War up to the present.Originally published in 1973, and then in an expanded edition in 1987, this third edition contains a new chapter and preface that both address the renewed debate on policy and drug legislation from the end of the Reagan adm
Authors:Frank Dikotter, Lars Laamann, Zhou Xun,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: china, drugs, history, culture, narcotic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-04-16
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0226149056
ISBN-13: 9780226149059
To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain’s most desirable trade commodity, opium—a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own version of the "war on drugs," which lasted roughly sixty years, from 1880 to World War II and the beginning of Chinese communism. But, as Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nin
Author: United Nations
Publisher: United Nations
Keywords: drugs, narcotic, psychotropic, substances, control, international, manufacture, illicit, precursors, dictionary, chemicals, frequently, used, multilingual
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 9210481283
ISBN-13: 9789210481281
Author: Ron Brunton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cultural, studies, social, anthropology, cambridge, instability, narcotic, kava, abandoned, melanesia
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1990-08-31
List price: $57.99
ISBN-10: 0521373751
ISBN-13: 9780521373753
Ron Brunton revives a problem posed by the great anthropologist W. H. R. Rivers in History of Melanesian Society (1914): how to explain the strange geographical distribution of kava, a narcotic drink once widely consumed by south-west Pacific islanders. Rivers believed that it was abandoned by many people even before European contact in favour of another drug, betel, drawing his speculations from the ideas of the diffusionist school of anthropology. However, Dr Brunton disagrees. Taking the varying fortunes of kava on the island of Tanna, Vanauta, as his starting point, he suggests that kava&#
Author: Frank;Xun, Zhou;Laamann, Lars Peter;Laamann, Lars
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Keywords: china, drugs, history, culture, narcotic
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1850657254
ISBN-13: 9781850657255
Author:
Publisher: Council of Europe
Keywords: illicit, traffic, psychotropic, drugs, explanatory, treaties, reports, narcotic, report, nations, implementing, sea, article, united, agreement, convention
Number of Pages: 70
Published: 1996-09-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9287125937
ISBN-13: 9789287125934
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