232 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Cocaine examines the rise and fall of this notorious substance from its legitimate use by scientists and medics in the nineteenth century to the international prohibitionist regimes and drug gangs of today. Themes explored include: * Amsterdam's complex cocaine culture * the manufacture, sale and control of cocaine in the United States * Japan and the Southeast Asian cocaine industry *... Read more
Notes on contributors, Foreword, Acknowledgments, I Introduction: cocaine: the hidden histories, PART I Amer-Andean connections (the United States, Peru), PART II European axis, Asian circuits (Gennany, Britain, the Netherlands andJava, Japan), PART III The new American nexus (CoiolDbia, Mexico), Bibliography, Index
Biography
Paul Gootenberg is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and author of Between Silver and Guano (Princeton, 1989) and Imagining Development (California, 1993).
'This is a very good book which deserves publishing success.'- Addiction
'Paul Gootenburg has edited a collection of essays ... of a high standard of research, insight and analysis.' - - R. Davenport-Hines, TLS
