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Fantastic Age of Intoxication
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Benjamin Breen's Fantastic Age of Intoxication explores the emergence and spread of intoxicating substances in the early modern period and their influence on culture, science, and commerce.
The book traces how commodities like tobacco, coffee, sugar, and opium reshaped societies and intellectual life across regions.
Breen combines archival research with narrative history to show how these substances informed consumption patterns and imperial trade.
By situating intoxicants within broader economic and social transformations, the work illuminates the deep entanglement of sensory experience and global capitalism.
It has contributed to renewed scholarly interest in the historical importance of psychoactive commodities.
The book traces how commodities like tobacco, coffee, sugar, and opium reshaped societies and intellectual life across regions.
Breen combines archival research with narrative history to show how these substances informed consumption patterns and imperial trade.
By situating intoxicants within broader economic and social transformations, the work illuminates the deep entanglement of sensory experience and global capitalism.
It has contributed to renewed scholarly interest in the historical importance of psychoactive commodities.
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Tom Sojka
Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026)
