Cocaine (eBook, ePUB)

Global Histories
Redaktion: Gootenberg, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 transformations to shed light on cocaine's hidden history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134600700
• Artikelnr.: 41502721

Autorenporträt

Paul Gootenberg is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and author of Between Silver and Guano (Princeton, 1989) and Imagining Development (California, 1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
I Introduction: cocaine: the hidden histories
PART I Amer-Andean connections (the United States
Peru)
PART II European axis
Asian circuits (Gennany
Britain
the Netherlands andJava
Japan)
PART III The new American nexus (CoiolDbia
Mexico)
Bibliography
Index