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Andean cocaine [[electronic resource] ] : the making of a global drug / / Paul Gootenberg



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Autore: Gootenberg Paul <1954-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Andean cocaine [[electronic resource] ] : the making of a global drug / / Paul Gootenberg Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (463 p.)
Disciplina: 338.4/761532379
Soggetto topico: Cocaine industry - Peru - History
Drug traffic - Peru
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
Titolo autorizzato: Andean cocaine  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0582-1
0-8078-8779-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777958603321
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