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Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs de Peter Andreas

Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs

Autor Peter Andreas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 apr 2022

Remarcăm în Killer High o abordare analitică ce transformă studiul conflictelor armate dintr-o cronologie a bătăliilor într-o istorie a dependențelor strategice. Autorul Peter Andreas structurează lucrarea în jurul a șase studii de caz fundamentale — alcoolul, tutunul, cafeina, opiul, amfetaminele și cocaina — demonstrând cum fiecare substanță a funcționat ca un „ingredient de război” esențial. De la revoluția distilării care a lubrifiat cucerirea Lumii Noi, până la taxarea tutunului care a devenit coloana vertebrală a finanțelor guvernamentale, cartea deconstruiește mitul conform căruia drogurile sunt doar un instrument al teroriștilor sau al milițiilor moderne. Credem că elementul distinctiv al acestei lucrări este demonstrația clară a modului în care statele legitime au fost, istoric, principalii beneficiari ai acestui nex.

Comparabil cu Shooting Up de Lukasz Kamienski în rigurozitatea cu care examinează substanțele pentru îmbunătățirea performanței militare, Killer High este actualizat pentru a include o dimensiune politică și economică mai vastă. În timp ce Shooting Up se concentrează pe experiența psiho-chimică a soldatului, Peter Andreas extinde cadrul către macro-economie și formarea statelor. Această perspectivă continuă preocupările autorului din Smuggler Nation și The Illicit Global Economy, unde a explorat anterior mecanismele comerțului ilicit. Aici, el rafinează acele teme, arătând că războiul și drogurile au evoluat împreună, devenind, într-un sens istoric și sociologic, dependente unul de celălalt. Tonul este unul precis, ancorat în date istorice ce acoperă perioada de la antichitate până la conflictele contemporane din Anzi sau Afganistan, oferind o lectură densă, dar extrem de logică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197629994
ISBN-10: 0197629997
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 44 b&w halftones
Dimensiuni: 239 x 155 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii interesați de istorie militară și sociologie politică, această carte oferă o perspectivă inedită asupra logisticii conflictelor. Veți înțelege cum substanțele psihoactive au modelat granițele imperiilor și cum politicile de stat au fost adesea finanțate prin vicii. Este un instrument esențial pentru a decoda complexitatea războaielor moderne și a economiilor subterane care le susțin.

Despre autor

Peter Andreas este profesor de studii internaționale la Universitatea Brown. Expert recunoscut în economia globală ilicită și politicile de control al frontierelor, el a explorat în lucrări precum Smuggler Nation și Blue Helmets and Black Markets intersecția dintre criminalitate, supraviețuire și conflict. Experiența sa în analizarea piețelor negre și a politicilor de securitate îi conferă autoritatea necesară pentru a trata subiectul sensibil al drogurilor nu doar ca pe o problemă de sănătate publică, ci ca pe un motor geopolitic fundamental.

Descriere

The story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of six drugs: alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine. There is growing alarm over how drugs empower terrorists, insurgents, militias, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centuries, Peter Andreas reveals that the drugs-conflict nexus is actually an old story, and that powerful states have been its biggest beneficiaries.In his path-breaking Killer High, 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. From ancient brews and battles to meth and modern warfare, drugs and war have grown up together and become addicted to each other.

Recenzii

Killer High, well-written and extensively researched, shows how the drugs-war relationship has served state interests and ambitions.
Since time immemorial, soldiers have consumed mind-altering substances; Andreas (International Studies/Brown Univ.; Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America, 2013, etc.) delivers an impressive, often unsettling history of six.
Peter Andreas...has drawn from an impressive and eclectic mix of sources to give psychoactive and addictive drugs a fuller place in discussions of war. His book steps back from the headlines to draw a full arc that reads as both complement and counterpoint to enduring fables and simplistic accounts surrounding wars and nations you may think you know. Organized into six main chapters on the varied drugs-war relationships - one each for alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, speed and cocaine - it offers a fascinating interpretive lens for drugs' roles in making war and, in turn, wars' roles in spreading drugs around the world.
Peter Andreas always writes about captivating topics, but his take on the combination of violence and drugs may be his best yet. This is a history of conflict and capitalism and how the two are intertwined. It also provides a fascinating perspective on consumer behavior and the creation of our drugged culture. Beautifully written, this book is both scholarly and wonderfully entertaining. A great read!
Ingeniously plotted, briskly written, and strikingly illustrated, Killer High delivers a kaleidoscopic trip through the history of drugs and war. Peter Andreas looks at the drug-war relationship from every angle: how combatants and noncombatants used drugs; how wars were fought through, for, or against drugs; and how wars shaped the fates of drugs, often speeding their rise as global commodities.
Killer High frees history from the names-and-dates straightjacket and looks more deeply at why we fight. From the drinking binges of Alexander the Great to anti-drug campaigns in Afghanistan and Latin America, it illuminates the hidden relationship between drugs and war. By reimagining the past so insightfully, it helps us understand the conflicts of today and tomorrow.
"Peter Andreas is that rare political scientist who can weave serious and compelling historical arguments and who writes with the breadth and clarity of a public intellectual. Killer High is a killer book-the definitive work on the history of drugs and warfare.
Killer High is a captivating book, laced with provocative insights about the enduring relationship between drugs and war and further enlivened with entertaining flashes of wit.

Notă biografică

Peter Andreas is the John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University, where he holds a joint appointment between the Department of Political Science and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Andreas has published ten books, including Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America. He has also written for publications such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Harper's, The Nation, The New Republic, Slate, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Cornell University, he lives with his family in Providence, Rhode Island.