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04854aam a2200577 i 4500 001 7F402BA8FF1611E695AA88B7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170302010256 008 151026t20162016nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015040597 020 $a 0190263474 020 $a 9780190263478 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d BDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d COO $d PUL $d GZM $d OCLCO $d NLM $d OCLCO $d DAC $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a RC971 $b .K34 2016 082 00 $a 616.9/8023 $2 23 100 1 $a KamienÌski, Åukasz, $e author. 245 10 $a Shooting up : $b a short history of drugs and war / $c Åukasz KamienÌski. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xxix, 381 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a From pre-modern times to the end of the Second World War -- Premodern 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. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Medicine, Military $x History $v Miscellanea. 650 0 $a Soldiers $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Drug utilization $x History. 650 0 $a Drug abuse $x History. 650 0 $a Military art and science $v Miscellanea. 650 0 $a Military history $v Miscellanea. 650 12 $a Psychotropic Drugs $x history 650 12 $a Warfare 650 22 $a Military Personnel $x psychology 650 22 $a Military Personnel $x history 650 22 $a Biomedical Enhancement $x history 650 22 $a Military Medicine $x history 650 7 $a Drug abuse. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00898480 650 7 $a Drug utilization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00898740 650 7 $a Medicine, Military. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01015285 650 7 $a Military art and science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01020874 650 7 $a Military history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01021222 650 7 $a Soldiers $x Drug use. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01125257 650 7 $a Krieg. $0 (DE-588)4033114-3 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Soldat. $0 (DE-588)4055409-0 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Droge. $0 (DE-588)4013058-7 $2 gnd 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Miscellanea. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423854 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200204024454.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170302014633.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7F402BA8FF1611E695AA88B7DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search