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Автор: Kamienski Lukasz
Название: Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War
ISBN: 9780190263478
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0190263474
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 352
Вес: 0.68 кг.
Дата издания: 19.02.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 236 x 158 x 36
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to enhance performance during combat and to counter the trauma of killing and witnessing violence after it is over. Stimulants (e.g. alcohol, cocaine, and amphetamines) have been used to temporarily create better soldiers by that improving stamina, overcoming sleeplessness, eliminating fatigue, and increasing fighting spirit. Downers (e.g. alcohol, opiates, morphine, heroin, marijuana, barbiturates) have also been useful in dealing with the soldiers greatest enemy - shattered nerves. Kamienskis focuses on drugs prescribed by military authorities, but also documents the widespread unauthorised consumption by soldiers themselves. Combatants have always treated with various drugs and alcohol, mainly for recreational use and as a reward to themselves for enduring the constant tension of preparing for. Although not officially approved, such self-medication is often been quietly tolerated by commanders in so far as it did not affect combat effectiveness. This volume spans the history of combat from the use of opium, coca, and mushrooms in pre-modern warfare to the efforts of modern militaries, during the Cold War in particular, to design psychochemical offensive weapons that can be used to incapacitate rather than to kill the enemy. Along the way, Kamienski provides fascinating coverage of on the European adoption of hashish during Napoleans invasion of Egypt, opium use during the American Civil War, amphetamines in the Third Reich, and the use of narcotics to control child soldiers in the rebel militias of contemporary Africa.

Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War, Kamienski Lukasz