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> From: David Kalivas <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: January 29, 2005 7:14:02 AM EST
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> Subject: alcohol and drugs in world history
> Reply-To: H-NET List for World History <[log in to unmask]>
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> From:     Boris Stremlin
>               SUNY at Binghamton
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> Richard Rudgley's (anthropologist) _Essential Substances_ begins with
> cave
> drawings under the influence of hallucinogens, and ends with cocaine
> and
> opiates in the 20th century.  There is also German cultural historian
> Wolfgang Schivelbusch's _Tastes of Paradise_ - probably the best
> written
> short "world history" of the subject.
>
> In the early 90's, Verso published a history of vodka, though I can't
> recall
> the name of the author.
>