The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics
- ISBN-10
- 0393325458
- ISBN-13
- 9780393325454
- Series
- The Pursuit of Oblivion
- Category
- Drug abuse
- Pages
- 592
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-11-10
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Authors
- Richard Davenport-Hines, Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines
Description
Written with encyclopedic scope, this candid, sober, hard-hitting history of the global drug trade takes the reader back five centuries to the origins of the modern narcotics industry in the Western world. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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