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Record Nr.

UNINA9910555233803321

Titolo

Cocaine : from coca fields to the streets / / Enrique Desmond Arias and Thomas Grisaffi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-4780-1372-9

1-4780-2195-0

9781478021957

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

SOC002010HIS024000

Disciplina

364.1/3365

Soggetti

Cocaine industry - Latin America

Cocaine industry - United States

Drug traffic - Social aspects - Latin America

Drug traffic - Social aspects - United States

Drug control - Latin America

Drug control - United States

Coca industry - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The moral economy of the cocaine trade / Enrique Desmond Arias and Thomas Grisaffi -- The white factory : coca, cocaine, and informal governance in the Chapare, Bolivia / Thomas Grisaffi -- Tracing cocaine supply chains from within : illicit flows, armed conflict, and the moral economy of Andean borderlands / Annette Idler -- Drug crops, twisted motorcycles, and cultural loss in indigenous Colombia / Autumn Zellers-León -- From Corumbá to Rio : an ethnography of trafficking / Robert Gay -- Border, ghetto, prison : cocaine and social orders in Guatemala / Anthony W. Fontes -- Drug cartels, from political to criminal intermediation : The Caballeros Templarios' mirror sovereignty in Michoacán, Mexico / Romain Le Cour Grandmaison -- Of drugs, tortillas, and real estate : on the tangible and intangible benefits of drug dealing in Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers -- "A very well-established culture" : cocaine market self-regulation as alternative governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico / Lilian Bobea and Cyrus



Veeser -- Visible and invisible "cracklands" in Brazil : moral drug commerce and the production of space in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1990-2017) / Taniele Rui -- The violence of the American dream in segregated US inner-city narcotics markets / Philippe Bourgois, Laurie Kain Hart, George Karandinos, and Fernando Montero -- Shifting south : cocaine's historical present and the changing politics of drug war, 1975-2015 / Paul Gootenberg -- Conclusion. Responding to cocaine's moral economies / Enrique Desmond Arias.

Sommario/riassunto

"The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout Latin America and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities."--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955302403321

Autore

Donoghue Daniel <1956->

Titolo

Old English literature : a short introduction / / Daniel Donoghue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004

ISBN

1-281-31072-7

9786611310721

0-470-70717-8

0-470-77602-1

0-470-77680-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Collana

Blackwell introductions to literature

Disciplina

829/.09

Soggetti

English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Series statement on jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.[126]-130) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Old English Literature: A Short Introduction; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; 1 The Vow; 2 The Hall; 3 The Miracle; 4 The Pulpit; 5 The Scholar; Notes; Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls 'figures' from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar. An



innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature. Structured around 'figures' from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar. Situates Old English literary texts within a cultural framework. Creates new connections between different genres, periods and authors. Combines close textual