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LEADER: 02195cam 2200409 i 4500
001 9925235805601661
005 20160505044053.4
008 151026t20162016nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015040597
019 $a907446250
020 $a9780190263478$qhardcover
020 $a0190263474$qhardcover
035 $a99967293722
035 $a(OCoLC)928136811$z(OCoLC)907446250
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn928136811
040 $aDLC$erda$beng$cDLC$dYDX$dOCLCF$dYDXCP$dBDX$dBTCTA$dOCLCO$dCOO$dPUL$dGZM
042 $apcc
050 00 $aRC971$b.K34 2016
082 00 $a616.9/8023$223
100 1 $aKamien ski, ¿ukasz,$eauthor.
245 10 $aShooting up :$ba short history of drugs and war /$c¿ukasz Kamien ski.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bOxford University Press,$c[2016]
264 4 $c℗♭2016
300 $axxix, 381 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aFrom 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.
650 0 $aMedicine, Military$xHistory$vMiscellanea.
650 0 $aSoldiers$xDrug use$xHistory.
650 0 $aDrug utilization$xHistory.
650 0 $aDrug abuse$xHistory.
650 0 $aMilitary art and science$vMiscellanea.
650 0 $aMilitary history$vMiscellanea.
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980 $a99967293722