Killer High
Killer High There is growing alarm over how drugs increasingly empower terrorists, insurgents, traffickers, and gangs. This sweeping history tells the story of war from antiquity to the modern age…
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Killer High
There is growing alarm over how drugs increasingly empower terrorists, insurgents, traffickers, and gangs. This sweeping history tells the story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine. But by looking back not just years and decades but centuries, Peter Andreas reveals that the drugs-conflict nexus is actually an old story, and that powerful states have been its biggest beneficiaries.In his path-breaking Killer High, Andreas shows how six psychoactive drugs--ranging from old to relatively new, mild to potent, licit to illicit, natural to synthetic--have proven to be particularly important war ingredients.
Tobacco became globalized through Beer and wine drenched ancient and medieval battlefields, and the distilling revolution lubricated the conquest and ethnic cleansing of the New World.