Paradise in Hell

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Bullets and Alcohol
1. Controversies, paradoxes and compromises
2. The bar front: respectable masculinity on the home front
3. ‘Drinks of death’: respectable masculinity at the front
4. ‘Raging drunk’: Republican dehumanisation of the enemy
5. ‘Who are the real drunkards?’: Insurgent dehumanisation of the enemy
6. ‘Drunk on blood and alcohol’: ethylic monsters and violence
7. ‘Drinking reveals the good warrior’: everyday nationalism, tough and cocky masculinity
8. Alcohol on the front line
9. The ‘malignant’ consequences of alcohol: discipline, psychosis and alcoholism
Part Two: Artificial Paradise
10. Drugs and modern war: a global context
11. The unstoppable path towards ‘degeneration’
12. The toxic enemy: anti-drug discourses during the Spanish Civil War
13. ‘Morfo’ and ‘coco’ in the Spanish Civil War
14. The pharmaceutical industry and the war effort
15. The black market and the war on drugs
16. From kif smoke to the amphetamine myth
17. The psychoactive legacies of war
Conclusions
References