The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Social History of Drugs - Brossura

Davenport-Hines, Richard

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ISBN 10: 1842125524 ISBN 13: 9781842125526

Casa editrice: Orion, 2002

Riassunto

A history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked physicians, oppressed housewives, exhausted labourers, high-powered businessmen, playboys, sex workers, pop stars, seedy losers, stressed adolescents, defiant schoolchildren, the victims of the ghetto, and happy young people on a spree.

It is also the history of one bad idea, prohibition.

'You'll find almost everything you ever wanted to know about drugs in this work, except how to get hold of them'

Simon Garfield, FINANCIAL TIMES

'Everyone with any influence on government policy should read this book and wake up before it is too late'

Phillip Knightley, SUNDAY TIMES

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Descrizione del libro

'The most important study on this subject in years, perhaps ever' Phillip Knightley, SUNDAY TIMES

L'autore

Richard Davenport-Hines is a past winner of the Wolfson Prize for History and contributes regularly to the TLS, SUNDAY TIMES, INDEPENDENT and NATURE.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1842125524
• ISBN 13: 9781842125526
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480