High society : mind-altering drugs in history and culture / Mike Jay

London : Thames & Hudson, 2010. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 192 pp., illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliography and index. Contents; A Universal Impulse; High Societies; The Evolution of Drugs; Animal Intoxication; Drugs and Shamanism; Drugs and Culture; The Culture of Kava; The Culture of Betel; Drug Prohibitions; Drug Subcultures; The Cultures of Ecstasy; From Apothecary to Laboratory; What is a Drug?; Drugs in Antiquity; Renaissance Herbals; Witches and Flying Ointments; The Invention of Laudanum; Linnaeus and the Enlightenment; The First Synthetic Drugs; Opium and the Romantics; The Club des Haschischins; Freud and CocaineAddiction and Drug ControlMescaline, LSD and Beyond; Drugs of the Future; The Drugs Trade; Drugs of the New World; The Psychoactive Revolution; Tobacco in China, Tea in Europe; The Opium Wars; The Anti-Opium campaign; Temperance and Prohibition; The 'War on Drugs'; Epilogue: The Decline of Tobacco. Subjects; Wellcome Collection. Hallucinogenic drugs History. Opium. Cannabis. Substance-Related Disorders. Temperance. Smoking. Medical plants. Drug abuse.