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Control # 1 hbl99072594
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20190911110906.0
Fixed Data 8 151026s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2015040597
ISBN 20    $a9780190263478 (hardback)
Obsolete 39    $a302033$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
LC Call 50 00 $aRC971$b.K34 2016
Dewey Class 82 00 $a616.9/8023$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aKamienski, Lukasz.
Title 245 10 $aShooting up :$ba short history of drugs and war /$cLucasz Kamienski.
Imprint 260    $aNew York, NY :$bOxford University Press,$c[2016]
Phys Descrpt 300    $axxix, 381 pages ;$c25 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$2rdacarrier
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 343-366) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aPharmacologically enhanced militaries -- Alcohol -- From pre-modern times to the end of the Second World War -- Pre-modern times: opium, hashish, mushrooms and coca -- Napoleon in Egypt and the adventures of Europeans with hashish -- The Opium Wars -- The American Civil War, opium, morphine and the "soldiers' disease" -- The colonial wars and the terrifying "barbarians" -- From coca to cocaine: the First World War -- The Second World War -- The Cold War -- From the Korean War to the war over mind control -- In search of wonderful new techniques and weapons -- Vietnam: the first true pharmacological war -- The Red Army in Afghanistan and the problem of drug addiction -- Towards the present -- Contemporary irregular armies empowered by drugs -- Intoxicated child soldiers -- Drugs in the contemporary American Armed Forces -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: war as a drug.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMedicine, Military$xHistory$vMiscellanea.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aSoldiers$xDrug use$xHistory.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aDrug utilization$xHistory.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aDrug abuse$xHistory.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMilitary art and science$vMiscellanea.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMilitary history$vMiscellanea.