The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics by Richard Davenport-Hines

The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics

Richard Davenport-Hines

592 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Richard Davenport-Hines examines how licit medicines developed into a huge illegal business. Drawing on evidence from different continents and cultures across five centuries, this book offers a sharply opinionated history of drugs.

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