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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810486703321

Autore

Gootenberg Paul <1954->

Titolo

Andean cocaine : the making of a global drug / / Paul Gootenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008

ISBN

1-4696-0582-1

0-8078-8779-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (463 p.)

Disciplina

338.4/761532379

338.4761532379

Soggetti

Cocaine industry - Peru - History

Drug traffic - Peru

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. [385]-412) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : cocaine as Andean history -- Imagining coca, discovering cocaine, 1850-1890 -- Making a national commodity : Peruvian crude cocaine, 1885-1910 -- Cocaine enchained : global commodity circuits, 1890s-1930s -- Withering cocaine : Peruvian responses, 1910-1945 -- Anticocaine : from reluctance to global prohibitions, 1910-1950 -- Birth of the narcos : Pan-American illicit networks, 1945-1965 -- The drug boom (1965-1975) and beyond.

Sommario/riassunto

Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illegal Latin American exports: cocaine. Gootenberg traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Connecting the story of the drug's transformations is a host of people, products, and processes: Sigmund Freud, Coca-Cola, and Pablo Escobar all make appearances, exemplifying the