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Killer high : a history of war in six drugs

text Killer high : a history of war in six drugs

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"In his path-breaking Killer High, Andreas shows how six psychoactive drugs--ranging from old to relatively new, mild to potent, licit to illicit, natural to synthetic--have proven to be particularly important war ingredients. This sweeping histor... Read more
Contents

Introduction: How drugs made war and war made drugs -- Drunk on the front -- Where there's smoke there's war -- Caffeinated conflict -- Opium, empire, and Geopolitics -- Speed warfare -- Cocaine wars -- Conclusion: The drugged battlefields of the 21st century .

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ix, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher
Oxford University Press 2020

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 616.9 AND in Adult Non-fiction Available

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