Grand unified books thread

[Maladict]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

They're probably out of print, but you should be able to find them on abebooks.

[Malthus]

Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use in America Before 1965 by the great drug historian David Courtwright, has arrived.  Addressing the "classic" (i.e. purely punitive) period of American narcotics regulation, from 1923 (when the last public heroin maintenance clinics in NYC and Shreveport, La. closed) to 1965 (when methadone maintenance arrived on the scene). 

A welcome addition to the narcotics shelf, alongside other recent arrivals, Global Histories of Cocaine and Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History.  I think I'm developing a drug-history addiction.

Have you ever read The Black Candle? Facinating stuff, one foundation of Canada's anti-drug policy. Written by a very influential woman - the first female judge in the British Empire, a protagonist in the famous "persons" case (a leading Canadian constitutional case that determined that "persons" in a statute included women).

Emily Murphy (born Emily Gowan Ferguson; 14 March 1868 – 17 October 1933) was a Canadian women's rights activist, jurist, and author. In 1916, she became the first female magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire. She is best known for her contributions to Canadian feminism, specifically to the question of whether women were "persons" under Canadian law.

Murphy is known as one of the "The Famous Five" (also called "The Valiant Five")[1]—a group of Canadian women's rights activists that also included Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby. In 1927, the women launched the "Persons Case," contending that women could be "qualified persons" eligible to sit in the Senate. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that they were not. However, upon appeal to the Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council, the court of last resort for Canada at that time, the women won their case.

She was a pioneer of women's rights - on the issue of drugs, however, she was (by modern standards) hilariously racist. Essentially, drugs are bad in large part because non-White races use them to degenerate Whites down to their own mongrel level. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Murphy

https://archive.org/stream/TheBlackCandle/MurphyBlackCandletoronto1922_djvu.txt

[Neil]

And these came in today:
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649
The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815


The to-read pile has grown to 46 books

I've been waiting for the third one forever.  Those are good books.

[Capetan Mihali]

Have you ever read The Black Candle? Facinating stuff, one foundation of Canada's anti-drug policy. Written by a very influential woman - the first female judge in the British Empire, a protagonist in the famous "persons" case (a leading Canadian constitutional case that determined that "persons" in a statute included women).

I haven't read much at all on Canada's drug history, but that looks very interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.

[Ed Anger]

Newly arrived at The Wolf's Lair:

The Collapse of Rome: Marius, Sulla and the First Civil War

Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain

[11B4V]

Newly arrived at The Wolf's Lair:

The Collapse of Rome: Marius, Sulla and the First Civil War

Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain

How boring.

[jimmy olsen]

Newly arrived at The Wolf's Lair:

The Collapse of Rome: Marius, Sulla and the First Civil War

Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain

A shame you always root for the villian.

[Ed Anger]

Newly arrived at The Wolf's Lair:

The Collapse of Rome: Marius, Sulla and the First Civil War

Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain

How boring.

I used to be like you. Everything World War Two. Then  I grew up.

[Razgovory]

Newly arrived at The Wolf's Lair:

The Collapse of Rome: Marius, Sulla and the First Civil War

Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain

How boring.

I used to be like you. Everything World War Two. Then  I grew up.

You used to be stupid?

[The Brain]

World Number Two.

[Ed Anger]

Newly arrived at The Wolf's Lair:

The Collapse of Rome: Marius, Sulla and the First Civil War

Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain

How boring.

I used to be like you. Everything World War Two. Then  I grew up.

You used to be stupid?

Hey now, watch it.

[The Brain]

How gallant! Sir Ed protects fair maiden 11B.

[Ed Anger]

Grendel is attacking.

[Valmy]

She was a pioneer of women's rights - on the issue of drugs, however, she was (by modern standards) hilariously racist. Essentially, drugs are bad in large part because non-White races use them to degenerate Whites down to their own mongrel level. 

Yeah we had some of that in our women's suffrage movement.  I mean black men could vote (in some localities anyway) and they barely qualified as human beings so how outrageous was it that good white women couldn't vote?  Doh.

[Capetan Mihali]

She was a pioneer of women's rights - on the issue of drugs, however, she was (by modern standards) hilariously racist. Essentially, drugs are bad in large part because non-White races use them to degenerate Whites down to their own mongrel level. 

Yeah we had some of that in our women's suffrage movement.  I mean black men could vote (in some localities anyway) and they barely qualified as human beings so how outrageous was it that good white women couldn't vote?  Doh.

Well, there's a whole element of strategic politics in almost any movement, where you try to leverage the prejudices (good or bad) of the powerful in your favor.

BTW, I'm enjoying "The Black Candle" on Gutenberg.  It's surprisingly well-written and thoughtful for an anti-drug tract of the period.  There's an interesting rhetorical thread where she's trying to formulate something distinctively Canadian for drug policy, even though most of the data on drug addiction and the most aggressive polices are coming out of the US.