Shooting up a short history of drugs and war
Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2016
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Geschichte
> Medicine, Military / History / Miscellanea
> Soldiers / Drug use / History
> Drug utilization / History
> Drug abuse / History
> Military art and science / Miscellanea
> Military history / Miscellanea
> Drug abuse
> Drug utilization
> Medicine, Military
> Military art and science
> Military Medicine / history
> Military history
> Soldiers / Drug use
> Militär
> Kriegführung
> Drogenkonsum
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Pharmacologically enhanced militaries -- Alcohol -- From pre-modern times to the end of the Second World War -- Pre-modern times: opium, hashish, mushrooms and coca -- Napoleon in Egypt and the adventures of Europeans with hashish -- The Opium Wars -- The American Civil War, opium, morphine and the "soldiers' disease" -- The colonial wars and the terrifying "barbarians" -- From coca to cocaine: the First World War -- The Second World War -- The Cold War -- From the Korean War to the war over mind control -- In search of wonderful new techniques and weapons -- Vietnam: the first true pharmacological war -- The Red Army in Afghanistan and the problem of drug addiction -- Towards the present -- Contemporary irregular armies empowered by drugs -- Intoxicated child soldiers -- Drugs in the contemporary American Armed Forces -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: war as a drug |
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| Beschreibung: | xxix, 381 Seiten 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780190263478 978-0-19-026347-8 0190263474 0-19-026347-4 |