High Society
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A global history of intoxication, exploring the international
spectrum of drug use in cultures across the world, from prehistory
to the present day. Every society is a high society. Every day,
people drink coffee on European terraces, chew betel nut in
Indonesian markets, take coca leaf on Andean mountainsides and
smoke tobacco in every nation on earth.Mike Jay’s global history of
intoxication looks at the earliest archaeological evidence of drug
use, the botanicals of the classical world, the mind-bending
self-experiments of early scientists and today's ‘war on drugs’. In
High Society Jay paints vivid portraits of the roles that drugs
play as medicines, religious sacraments, status symbols and trade
goods. He traces the understanding of intoxicants from prehistory
to the present, and reveals how the international trade in
substances such as tobacco, tea and opium shaped the modern
world.First published to accompany the highly successful exhibition
at the Wellcome Collection, London, and now featuring a new
preface, this striking and lyrical book remains one of the most
complete explorations of drug use in cultures across the world.
Výber kníh autorov
Thames & Hudson Ltd ,
Mike Jay
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Thames & Hudson Ltd,
Mike Jay
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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