Cocaine : global histories / / edited by Paul Gootenberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783646303321
• 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