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UNINA9910783646303321 |
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Titolo |
Cocaine : global histories / / edited by Paul Gootenberg |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
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92-9078-018-5 |
1-134-60070-4 |
1-134-60071-2 |
1-280-40096-X |
0-203-15966-7 |
0-203-02646-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Cocaine - History |
Cocaine abuse - History |
Cocaine industry - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-203) and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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UNINA9910777606703321 |
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Autore |
Uddin Sufia M |
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Constructing Bangladesh [[electronic resource] ] : religion, ethnicity, and language in an Islamic nation / / Sufia M. Uddin |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006 |
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979-88-908796-0-8 |
0-8078-7733-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Islamic civilization & Muslim networks |
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Islam and state - Bangladesh - History |
Group identity - Bangladesh - History |
Bengali language - Social aspects |
Nationalism - Bangladesh - History |
Bangladesh History |
Bangladesh Civilization |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index. |
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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 |
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Highlighting the dynamic, pluralistic nature of Islamic civilization, Sufia |
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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 |
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