Expanding Mindscapes

A Global History of Psychedelics

Paper Book

The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers.

Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editors Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock deliberately move away from these places in this collection to reveal a longer and more global history of psychedelics, which chronicles their discovery, use, and cultural impact in the twentieth century.

The authors in this collection explore everything from LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia to the first applications of LSD-25 in South America to the intersection of modernism and ayahuasca in China. Along the way, they also consider how psychedelic experiments generated their own cultural expressions, where the specter of the United States may have loomed large and where colonial empires exerted influence on the local reception of psychedelics in botanical and pharmaceutical pursuits.

Breaking new ground by adopting perspectives that are currently lacking in the historiography of psychedelics, this collection adds to the burgeoning field by offering important discussions on underexplored topics such as gender, agriculture, parapsychology, anarchism, and technological innovations.

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Title
Expanding Mindscapes
Subtitle
A Global History of Psychedelics
Publisher
Author(s)
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Published
2023-11-21
Edition
1
Format
eBook (pdf, epub, mobi)
Pages
544
Language
English
ISBN-10
0262546930
ISBN-13
9780262376891
License
CC BY-NC-SA
Book Homepage
Free eBook, Errata, Code, Solutions, etc.
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