Peter Andreas

Killer High

A History of War in Six Drugs

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Produktbeschreibung

In Killer High, Peter Andreas tells the story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of six psychoactive drugs: alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine. Armed conflict has become progressively more "drugged" with the global spread of these mind-altering substances. From ancient brews and battles to meth and modern warfare, drugs and war have grown up together and become addicted to each other. By looking back not just years and decades but centuries, Andreas reveals that the drugs-conflict nexus is actually an old story, and that powerful states have been its biggest beneficiaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780197629994
• ISBN-10: 0197629997
• Artikelnr.: 63197749

Autorenporträt

Peter Andreas is the John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University, where he holds a joint appointment between the Department of Political Science and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Andreas has published ten books, including Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America. He has also written for publications such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Harper's, The Nation, The New Republic, Slate, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Cornell University, he lives with his family in Providence, Rhode Island.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: How Drugs Made War and War Made Drugs
1: Drunk on the Front
2: Where there's Smoke There's War
3: Caffeinated Conflict
4: Opium, Empire, and Geopolitics
5: Speed Warfare
6: Cocaine Wars
Conclusion: The Drugged Battlefields of the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Index