The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade by Benjamin Breen

The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade

Benjamin Breen

304 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era wh...

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