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Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. By David T. Courtwright. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 277. $24.95, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2002

Carl A. Trocki
Carl A. Trocki
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Queensland University of Technology
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During the past few decades a number of scholars have begun exploring a new range of questions regarding drugs and the drug trade. David Courtwright has been foremost in developing what might be understood as the “new history of drugs.” This slim volume is a tour de force of this approach, a sophisticated analysis of an extremely complex historical phenomenon. His simple and elegant style is suitable for the general reader, an undergraduate, or a specialist. Courtwright's study of the relationship between human beings, Western civilization, and our retinue of psychoactive substances is a penetrating overview of the global panorama during the past five centuries.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , June 2002 , pp. 633 - 634
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© 2002 The Economic History Association

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