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Press review for Emperors of Dreams : Drugs in the 19th century
"Utterly compelling social history of drugs. Humphry Davy, Thomas De Quincey, Conan Doyle, Sigmund Freud, Baudelaire and Gautier all figure, but it’s the drugs themselves –nitrous oxide, opium, cannabis, cocaine, mescaline- that are the protagonists. In a lively and informative narrative, Jay traces a century of Victorian drug experimentation and analyses the very recent prohibitions on substances our predecessors took (generally in large quantities) for granted."