Cocaine: Global Histories / Edition 1

by Paul Gootenberg

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415192477
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/09/1999
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'This is a very good book which deserves publishing success.'- Addiction

'Paul Gootenburg has edited a collection of essays ... of a high standard of research, insight and analysis.' - - R. Davenport-Hines, TLS

From the Publisher

Paul Gootenberg has edited a collection of historical essays on the international supply networks of cocaine since the 1880's. Almost all are of a high standard of research, insight and analysis, and they make valuable reading...
—Times Literary Supplement

Richard Davenport-Hines