Andean cocaine: the making of a global drug
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Main Author: Gootenberg, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2008
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Online Access:FLA01
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-412) and index
Introduction : cocaine as Andean history -- Imagining coca, discovering cocaine, 1850-1890 -- Making a national commodity : Peruvian crude cocaine, 1885-1910 -- Cocaine enchained : global commodity circuits, 1890s-1930s -- Withering cocaine : Peruvian responses, 1910-1945 -- Anticocaine : from reluctance to global prohibitions, 1910-1950 -- Birth of the narcos : Pan-American illicit networks, 1945-1965 -- The drug boom (1965-1975) and beyond
Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illegal Latin American exports: cocaine. Gootenberg traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Connecting the story of the drug's transformations is a host of people, products, and processes: Sigmund Freud, Coca-Cola, and Pablo Escobar all make appearances, exemplifying the gl
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 442 pages)
ISBN:9780807887790
080788779X
9781469605821
1469605821

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