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Shooting Up
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"--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
Mimowolne cyborgi
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Shooting Up
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"--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
Shooting Up
From hallucinogenic mushrooms and LSD, to coca and cocaine; from Homeric warriors and the Assassins to the first Gulf War and today's global insurgents - drugs have sustained warriors in the field and have been used as weapons of warfare, either as non-lethal psychochemical weapons or as a means of subversion. Lukasz Kamienski explores why and how drugs have been issued to soldiers to increase their battlefield performance, boost their courage and alleviate stress and fear - as well as for medical purposes. He also delves into the history of psychoactive substances that combatants 'self-prescribe', a practice which dates as far back as the Vikings. Shooting Up is a comprehensive and original history of the relationship between fighting men and intoxicants, from Antiquity till the present day, and looks at how drugs will determine the wars of the future in unforeseen and remarkable ways.
Killer High
Introduction: How drugs made war and war made drugs -- Drunk on the front -- Where there's smoke there's war -- Caffeinated conflict -- Opium, empire, and Geopolitics -- Speed warfare -- Cocaine wars -- Conclusion: The drugged battlefields of the 21st century .
Historicizing Fear
Historicizing Fear is a historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.The book examines fear and Othering from a historical context, providing a better understanding of how power and oppression is used in the present day. Contributors ground their work in the theory of Othering—the reductive action of labeling a person as someone who belongs to a subordinate social category defined as the Other—in relation to historical events, demonstrating that fear of the Other is universal, timeless, and interco...
Technologia i wojna przyszłości
Przedmiotem książki jest, najogólniej rzecz biorąc, wpływ rozwoju nowych technologii na sposób prowadzenia wojny. Ponieważ w literaturze przedmiotu brakuje teoretycznego podejścia, które całościowo ujmowałoby analizowane kwestie, wykorzystuję teoretyczny model rewolucji w sprawach wojskowych. (...) Fundamentalne zmiany technologiczne mają wpływ nie tylko na sposób prowadzenia wojny, ale także na stosunki międzynarodowe, ponieważ wojna stanowi jedno z centralnych zjawisk międzynarodowych oraz jedno z najpoważniejszych źródeł zmiany w systemie światowym. (...) Mam nadzieję, że książka ta może służyć jako przewodnik po wybranych strategicznych aspektach stosunk...
Las drogas en la guerra
Łukasz Kamieński nos ofrece una nueva visión del papel que han desempeñado las drogas en la guerra, desde los héroes homéricos que consumían opio hasta, en la actualidad, los cientos de miles de niños soldados que combaten drogados. En esta historia aprendemos cómo los ingleses forjaron un imperio basado en el ron, cómo las tropas de Napoleón descubrieron el hachís en Egipto o cómo las drogas explican las peores aberraciones de la guerra de Vietnam. Pero, al margen de este escenario de guerras, Kameński nos muestra que muchos de estos productos, prohibidos tan solo hace unos años, han formado parte por mucho tiempo de nuestra vida cotidiana, como la cocaína o como la heroína, lanzada al mercado en 1898, junto a la aspirina, como un sedante para la tos. Este libro, que Foreign Affairs califica de «profundo, perturbador e informativo », nos invita a ver la historia y el presente de las drogas con una nueva mirada.
A User's Guide to Melancholy
400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine's disease of the mind.
High Risk
This is a dark, raw and uncompromising tale of the human condition in extremis, drawing on the many lives of Ben Timberlake: as an archaeologist, Special Forces soldier, combat medic and drug addict. Starting with Ben’s first near-death experience—in a Nazi-themed bar in wartime Yugoslavia—High Risk is a whirlwind tour of everything from service in the SAS, combat in Iraq, and encounters with a gambling-obsessed 9/11 hijacker, to veterans blissed out on MDMA, hook-ups in the world of extreme sex, and battling a heroin habit on a remote Scottish island. Ben pursued the rush, and the chase often took him over the edge. Instead of asking why, he asked, why not? Blending confessional narrative, classic reportage and acerbic humour, this memoir takes a gonzo look at terrorists, junkies, soldiers and strippers, through the tale of one extraordinary life.
