Description
In this first American publication of the European bestseller, Escohotado offers a clear-eyed look at the instrumental role drugs have played in our cultural, social, and spiritual development. Preface Introduction 1 Remote Antiquity 2 The Greek World 3 The Roman World 4 The End of Paganism 5 Islam and Inebriation 6 Drugs, Lust, and Satan 7 The Resurgence of Medicine 8 The Discovery of America 9 The End of the Old Regime and the Opium Wars 10 The Nineteenth Century 11 The Antiliberal Reaction 12 The Beginnings of the Crusade 13 New Drugs 14 A Pharmacratic Peace 15 The Psychedelic Rebellion 16 Return of the Repressed 17 The Era of Substitutes 18 Some Aspects of the Problem Index
