アメリカの薬物:歴史読本<br>Drugs in America : A Documentary History

アメリカの薬物:歴史読本
Drugs in America : A Documentary History

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 574 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780814756621
  • DDC分類 362.290973

基本説明

Chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the most popular mind altering substances in the United States: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and opiates.

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Most Americans would be surprised to learn that large quantities of beer were brought over on the Puritan ships and that the hallowed Puritans were fond of drink. How many today realize that hemp was once lucrative cash crop - encouraged by President John Adams and promoted by the Agriculture department? Or that cocaine, opium and heroin had several waves of popularity in 19th and 20th centuries? Drugs and alcohol have been with us from the start. So have attempts to control or eliminate their use. In this anthology drug policy expert David Musto chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the most popular mind altering substances in the United States: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and opiates. In the section on alcohol we hear the Reverend Lyman Beecher, prominent radical abolitionist and father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, thundering against the evils of alcohol in 1826. We read medical documents that show how the first stirrings of concern about about what is now termed foetal-alcohol syndrome in 1910 turned public opinion against drinking and helped move the country toward Prohibition. The sections on illegal drugs contain surprises as well.With accessible, jargon-free introductions this anthology puts drug and alcohol use at the centre of American culture.