Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs

by Peter Andreas

Book Overview

There is growing alarm over how drugs empower terrorists, insurgents, militias, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centuries, Peter Andreas reveals that the drugs-conflict nexus is actually an old story, and that powerful states have been its biggest beneficiaries.

In his path-breaking Killer High, Andreas shows how six psychoactive drugs-ranging from old to relatively new, mild to potent, licit to illicit, natural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190463015
• ISBN13: 9780190463014
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"