Mescaline : a global history of the first psychedelic / Mike Jay.
Mescaline : a global history of the first psychedelic / Mike Jay.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
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G 2019/3329
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English
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xi, 297 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Prologue : One bright May morning 3 May 1983 : Hollywood Hills -- Cactus mysteries 2000 BCE-present : Andean South America -- The Devil's root : 1519-present : Mexico -- Making medicine 1880-93 : Oklahoma, Texas, Detroit, Berlin -- Brilliant visions : 1895-98 : Washington DC, Philadelphia, Leipzig,...
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
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Connecticut
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after which the word "psychedelic" was coined to describe it. Its story, however, extends deep into prehistory: the earliest Andean cultures depicted mescaline-containing cacti in their temples. Mescaline was isolated in 1897 from the...
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Mescaline : a global history of the first psychedelic / Mike Jay.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/3329
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74VKVx4mw04b
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ISBN
0300231075 hardcover
9780300231076 hardcover
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615.7883
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991024249915302626
