1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783646303321

Titolo

Cocaine : global histories / / edited by Paul Gootenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

92-9078-018-5

1-134-60070-4

1-134-60071-2

1-280-40096-X

0-203-15966-7

0-203-02646-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GootenbergPaul <1954->

Disciplina

362.29/8

Soggetti

Cocaine - History

Cocaine abuse - History

Cocaine industry - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-203) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: cocaine: the hidden histories; Making a modern drug: the manufacture, sale, and control of cocaine in the United States, 1880  1920; Reluctance or resistance? Constructing cocaine (prohibitions) in Peru, 1910  50; Germany and the transformations of cocaine, 1880  1920; Cocaine girls: sex, drugs, and modernity in London during and after the First World War; Doctors, diplomats, and businessmen: conflicting interests in the Netherlands and Dutch East Indies, 1860  1950

Japan and the cocaine industry of Southeast Asia, 1864  1944Colombia: cocaine and the ~miracle~ of modernity in Medelln; Cocaine in Mexico: a prelude to ~los Narcos~; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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  * 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 tr

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777606703321

Autore

Uddin Sufia M

Titolo

Constructing Bangladesh [[electronic resource] ] : religion, ethnicity, and language in an Islamic nation / / Sufia M. Uddin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006

ISBN

979-88-908796-0-8

0-8078-7733-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Islamic civilization & Muslim networks

Disciplina

954.92

Soggetti

Islam and state - Bangladesh - History

Group identity - Bangladesh - History

Bengali language - Social aspects

Nationalism - Bangladesh - History

Bangladesh History

Bangladesh Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; One: Islamic Themes in Premodern Bengali Literature and Life; Two: Nineteenth-Century Religious Reform Movements; Three: Breaking New Ground and Transgressing Boundaries; Four: Bengali or Bangladeshi?: The Conflict between Religious and Ethnic Nationalisms; Five: The Contested Place of Nation in Umma and Globalizing Efforts; Epilogue. Competing Visions of Community; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Highlighting the dynamic, pluralistic nature of Islamic civilization, Sufia



M. Uddin examines the complex history of Islamic state formation in Bangladesh, formerly the eastern part of the Indian province of Bengal. Uddin focuses on significant moments in the region's history from medieval to modern times, examining the interplay of language, popular and scholarly religious literature, and the colonial experience as they contributed to the creation of a unique Bengali-Islamic identity.During the precolonial era, Bengali, the dominant regional language, infused the richly diverse tradit