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Cocaine: Global Histories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415220019)
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xCocaine 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
* export of cocaine prohibitions to Peru
* sex, drugs and race in early modern London
Cocaine unveils new primary sources and covert social, cultural and political transformations to shed light on cocaine's hidden history.
Author: Paul Gootenberg
ISBN-10: 0415220017
ISBN-13: 9780415220019
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/09/1999
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.15w x 0.71d
By Paul Gootenberg
xPaul 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).
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