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    The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business

    David T. Courtwright

    We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. What can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire…

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    Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America

    David T. Courtwright

    In a newly enlarged edition of this book, David Courtwright offers an original interpretation of the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction–from respectable upper-class matrons to lower-class urban…

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    Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

    David T. Courtwright

    What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary…

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    No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America

    David T. Courtwright

    Offering an overview of a half century of American politics, this book looks at the counterrevolutionary dreams of liberalism’s enemies - to overturn people’s reliance on expanding government, reverse the…

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    The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business

    David T. Courtwright

    We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. What can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire…

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    Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City

    David T. Courtwright

    A consideration of the motivations for violence in America, which considers why it is so prevalent, and what and who is responsible.

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    Dark Paradise: Opiate Addiction in America Before 1940

    David T. Courtwright

    In this eye-opening book, David Courtwright offers an original interpretation of a puzzling chapter in American social and medical history: the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction. Once…

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    The Constitution, Law, and American Life: Critical Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century Experience

    The eight essays in this volume imaginatively explore the interrelationship between law and society in nineteenth-century America and encompass in their discussion some of the major historical issues of the…

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