Essential Substances
Subtitle: A Cultural History of Intoxicants in Society (Kodansha Globe Series)
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Published: August 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781568360751
Subjects: Cultural studies; Drug addiction & substance abuse; History of specific subjects; Psychotropic drugs; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Sociology; Sociology - General; Customs & Traditions; Drinking of alcoholic beverage; Cross-cultural studies; History; Narcotics
First sentence: Prehistoric man and those people called primitive, those once termed "the lower races," were, in the theories of the nineteenth century, the despised Stone Age cultures, those rejected from the edifice of "civilization."