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High Society
Mike Jay
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Description for High Society
Paperback. Looks at the earliest archaeological evidence of drug use, the botanicals of the classical world, and, the mind-bending self-experiments of early scientists. This title explores the international spectrum of drug use in cultures throughout the modern world. Num Pages: 192 pages, 157 illustrations, 142 in colour. BIC Classification: JMP; MBX; MMZR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 644.
New in paperback, Mike Jay’s global history of intoxication looks at the earliest archaeological evidence of drug use, the botanicals of the classical world, the mind-bending self-experiments of early scientists and today's ‘war on drugs’. Every society is a high society. Every day, people drink coffee on European terraces, chew betel nut in Indonesian markets, take coca leaf on Andean mountainsides and smoke tobacco in every nation on earth. This striking and lyrical book, beautifully illustrated with rarely seen paintings, photographs and engravings from the Wellcome Collection, explores the international spectrum of drug use in cultures throughout the ... Read more
New in paperback, Mike Jay’s global history of intoxication looks at the earliest archaeological evidence of drug use, the botanicals of the classical world, the mind-bending self-experiments of early scientists and today's ‘war on drugs’. Every society is a high society. Every day, people drink coffee on European terraces, chew betel nut in Indonesian markets, take coca leaf on Andean mountainsides and smoke tobacco in every nation on earth. This striking and lyrical book, beautifully illustrated with rarely seen paintings, photographs and engravings from the Wellcome Collection, explores the international spectrum of drug use in cultures throughout the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
646g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500289105
SKU
V9780500289105
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About Mike Jay
Mike Jay has written widely on the cultural history of science, medicine and the mind. His books include The Influencing Machine, The Story of James Tilly Matthews and his Confinement in Eighteenth-century Bedlam and High Society: Mind-altering Drugs in History and Culture. He reviews regularly for The London Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal. This Way Madness Lies ... Read more
Reviews for High Society
'Fascinating and highly recommended' - Psychedelic News 'Straightforward and engaging storytelling and cool headed analysis of use of, and attitudes towards, mind-altering drugs … deserves high praise for rendering a complex, controversial topic with clarity and elegance. It’s also good looking … quite marvellous' - British Medical Journal