Flowers in the Blood (eBook)

The Story of Opium

Jeff Goldberg (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
320 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62873-899-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The ultimate book on the incredible, and complex history of opium throughout the world.Flowers in the Blood lifts the veil of mystery that has surrounded opium down through the ages. Inside, discover: Why a three-thousand-year-old statue of a Greek goddess was crowned with poppies The formulas for Hippocratess ancient opium remedies Why the Islamic councils of the wise vilified hashish but venerated opium What really provoked the Opium Wars in China Why John Jacob Astor quit the opium trade The unique role played by Chinese opium in the birth of the American labor movementOpium has played a dramatic and varied role in human history, inspiring religious veneration, scientific exploration, the bitterest rancor, and the most fanciful ecstasy. Now, authors Jeff Goldberg and Dean Latimer have provided a complete, insightful history of opium.Along the way, the authors provide details of the addictions of S. T. Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, and other literary opium-eaters of the nineteenth century, as well as chronicling the progress of antidrug laws and the ongoing search for an addiction cure.Originally published in 1981, this edition of Flowers in the Blood has been updated with a new preface by Goldberg. At times disconcertingraising serious questions about attitudes and approaches toward powerful drugs and their controlFlowers in the Blood is an essential addition to the literature of opium, and a wide-awake look at the stuff that dreams (and nightmares) are made of.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Jeff Goldberg is a freelance writer best known as an investigator of psychoactive drugs and how they work in the brain. Born in Philadelphia, Goldberg's articles on science and medicine have appeared in Life, Discover, Omni, and other magazines internationally.Dean Latimer is the former executive of High Life magazine. Born in Canton, New York, Latimer helped to originate the East Village Other as well as the National Lampoon. His articles have also appeared in Oui and Penthouse, amongst others.William Burroughs was an American writer and artist, and one of the most recognized figures of the beat generation. He is probably most well-known for his novel Naked Lunch, a controversial work that was subject to one of the most recent obscenity trials for a book in the United States.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.2.2014
• Co-Autor: Dean Latimer
• Einführung: William Burroughs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1890's • 1914 • addicts • america books on jewish communities • Austria-Hungary • books on addicts • books on calcutta • books on century indias • books on cocteau • books on colonial indias • books on courter • books on darjeelings • books on dina • books on dinah • books on dowries books • books on edwin • books on hashishes • books on indian societies • books on jewish families • books on jewish lives • books on midwives • books on morphines • books on mother 's murders • books on nineteenths • books on opiates • books on products • books on sasson • books on silas • books on wealthy families • brave stance • Calcutta • century india • Cocteau • Codeine • colonial India • courter • Cultivated • Cultivation • Darjeeling • Demonization • DINA • dinah • dowry • Edwin • Family Saga • grow poppies • hashish • Incidental • indian society • Jewish Communities • Jewish Family • Jewish History • Jewish Life • late 1800's • late 19th • midwife • morphine • mothers killer • mother's murder • Natural Medicine • nead • nineteenth • Opiates • opium trade • poppy seed • Products • sasson • sassoon • Silas • wealthy families • Weinberg
• ISBN-10: 1-62873-899-5 / 1628738995
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62873-899-5 / 9781628738995