Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

ISBN-13: 9780197646694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 352 str.

Associate P Elizabeth Kelly (Associate Professor of History

Recenzje

Habit Forming presumes nothing about the way in which the world of 'legal' drugs functioned and instead asks new and interesting questions. It considers the ways in which drugs impacted the everyday life and experience—both exotic and mundane—of users and their families. Its broad sweep is not merely chronological but takes in a range of substances—from the familiar accounts of opium and cocaine to less-told accounts of hashish and peyote—and shows how Americans' complicated and contradictory dialogue about drugs was layered with assumptions about race, gender, and class. This work offers a foundation on which we can build a sense of what the drug war would later become and reminds us there is no single or inevitable way for society to respond to the problem of drugs.

O autorze

Elizabeth Kelly Gray is Associate Professor of History at Towson University.