The Resource Shooting up : a short history of drugs and war, Łukasz Kamienski
Shooting up : a short history of drugs and war, Łukasz Kamienski
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- Summary
- 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 soldier's greatest enemy - shattered nerves. Kamienski's focuses on drugs "prescribed" by military authorities, but also documents the widespread unauthorised consumption by soldiers themselves. Combatants have always treated themselves 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" has 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 Napolean's 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxix, 381 pages
- Contents
-
- Pharmacologically 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
- Isbn
- 9780190263478
- Label
- Shooting up : a short history of drugs and war
- Title
- Shooting up
- Title remainder
- a short history of drugs and war
- Statement of responsibility
- Łukasz Kamienski
- Subject
-
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse -- History
- Drug utilization
- Drug utilization -- History
- History
- Krieg, ..
- Medicine, Military
- Medicine, Military -- History -- Miscellanea
- Military Medicine -- history
- Military Personnel -- history
- Military Personnel -- psychology
- Military art and science
- Military art and science -- Miscellanea
- Biomedical Enhancement -- history
- Military history -- Miscellanea
- Miscellanea
- Psychotropic Drugs -- history
- Soldat
- Soldiers -- Drug use
- Soldiers -- Drug use | History
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Warfare
- Military history
- Droge
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 soldier's greatest enemy - shattered nerves. Kamienski's focuses on drugs "prescribed" by military authorities, but also documents the widespread unauthorised consumption by soldiers themselves. Combatants have always treated themselves 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" has 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 Napolean's 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kamieński, Łukasz
- Dewey number
- 616.9/8023
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RC971
- LC item number
- .K34 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
-
- 2016 D-623
- QV 11.1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Krieg, ..
- Medicine, Military
- Soldiers
- Drug utilization
- Drug abuse
- Military art and science
- Military history
- Psychotropic Drugs
- Warfare
- Military Personnel
- Military Personnel
- Biomedical Enhancement
- Military Medicine
- Drug abuse
- Drug utilization
- Medicine, Military
- Military art and science
- Military history
- Soldiers
- Soldat
- Droge
- Label
- Shooting up : a short history of drugs and war, Łukasz Kamienski
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-366) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Pharmacologically 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
- Control code
- ocn928136811
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xxix, 381 pages
- Isbn
- 9780190263478
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2015040597
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other control number
- 40025813657
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780190263478
- (OCoLC)928136811
- Label
- Shooting up : a short history of drugs and war, Łukasz Kamienski
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-366) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Pharmacologically 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
- Control code
- ocn928136811
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xxix, 381 pages
- Isbn
- 9780190263478
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2015040597
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other control number
- 40025813657
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780190263478
- (OCoLC)928136811
Subject
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse -- History
- Drug utilization
- Drug utilization -- History
- History
- Krieg, ..
- Medicine, Military
- Medicine, Military -- History -- Miscellanea
- Military Medicine -- history
- Military Personnel -- history
- Military Personnel -- psychology
- Military art and science
- Military art and science -- Miscellanea
- Biomedical Enhancement -- history
- Military history -- Miscellanea
- Miscellanea
- Psychotropic Drugs -- history
- Soldat
- Soldiers -- Drug use
- Soldiers -- Drug use | History
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Warfare
- Military history
- Droge
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