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Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs Audiobook, by Peter Andreas Play Audiobook Sample

Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs Audiobook

Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs Audiobook, by Peter Andreas Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Shawn Compton Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705237182

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

16

Longest Chapter Length:

56:00 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05:58 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

37:56 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

In his path-breaking Killer High, Peter Andreas shows how six psychoactive drugs—ranging from old to relatively new, mild to potent, licit to illicit, natural to synthetic—have proven to be particularly important war ingredients. This sweeping history tells the story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine.

Beer and wine drenched ancient and medieval battlefields, and the distilling revolution lubricated the conquest and ethnic cleansing of the New World. Tobacco became globalized through soldiering, with soldiers hooked on smoking and governments hooked on taxing it. Caffeine and opium fueled imperial expansion and warfare. The commercialization of amphetamines in the twentieth century energized soldiers to fight harder, longer, and faster, while cocaine stimulated an increasingly militarized drug war that produced casualty numbers surpassing most civil wars. As Andreas demonstrates, armed conflict has become progressively more drugged with the introduction, mass production, and global spread of mind-altering substances. As a result, we cannot understand the history of war without including drugs, and we similarly cannot understand the history of drugs without including war.

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