Essential Substances
Subtitle: A Cultural History of Intoxicants in Society
Publisher: Kodansha America
Published: May 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781568360164
Subjects: Sociology; Narcotics; Substance Abuse; Health/Fitness; Sociology - General; Psychotropic drugs; Customs & Traditions; Drinking of alcoholic beverage; Cross-cultural studies; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; History
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."