Begin forwarded message: > From: David Kalivas <[log in to unmask]> > Date: January 29, 2005 7:14:02 AM EST > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: alcohol and drugs in world history > Reply-To: H-NET List for World History <[log in to unmask]> > > From: Boris Stremlin > SUNY at Binghamton > [log in to unmask] > > > 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. >