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Emperors of Dreams : Drugs in the Nineteenth Century by Mike Jay is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Coleridge And De Quincey Swilling Bitter Draughts Of Opium, Sigmund Freud And Sherlock Holmes Dallying With Cocaine, Baudelaire And Gautier Rapt In Hashish Fantasies Behind Velvet Curtains, Even Queen Victoria Swallowing Her Prescription Dose Of Cannabis - These Snapshot Images Are Familiar, But What Is The Story Which Lies Behind Them? How Did Cannabis And Cocaine, Opium And Ether, Mushrooms And Mescaline Enter The Modern World, And What Was Their Impact On The Nineteenth Century's Dreams And Nightmares? Emperors Of Dreams Tells The Stories Of How All These Substances Were First Discovered, And Paints A Fresh And Startling Picture Both Of Today's Illicit Drugs And Of The Nineteenth Century. It Shows That The Age Of Empire And Victorian Values Was Awash With Legal Narcotics, Stimulants And Psychedelics, And Traces Their Progress Through The Rapidly Evolving Worlds Of Science And Colonial Expansion, The Demi-mondes Of Popular Subculture And Literary Bohemia, And The Rising Tide Of Temperance And Prohibition.--book Jacket. 1. Oh! Excellent Air Bag: Nitrous Oxide -- 2. The Black Drop: Opium -- 3. The Seraphim Theatre: Cannabis -- 4. Attack Of The Vapours: Ether -- 5. Watson -- The Nee

Who reads Emperors of Dreams : Drugs in the Nineteenth Century?

Author

Mike Jay

Publisher

Dedalus; Distributed in the U.S. by SCB Distributors; Dedalus Limited; Dedalus Books Limited

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781873982488

Category

history

Subjects

Folklore, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14