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Andean Cocaine is an important intellectual achievement. Gootenberg uses a fluent narrative and a new and sophisticated interpretation to discuss the link between local and global events and to explain the roles played by unequal actors and institutions. A first-class book. <br> -- Marcos Cueto, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Peru

The anti-cocainism that arose in the United States transformed cocaine into a global threat in the first part of the 20th century. . . . This huge work untangles the multiple mechanisms of cocaine's social, local, and global construction, which transmuted a medical drug and commodity into a world menace with a war declared against it. Gootenberg has written a history that will make history. <br>- European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

An outstanding contribution to the history of narcotics and to the new global history . Andean Cocaine expands our knowledge of the commodity chain and global markets .[It] is an essential work for any scholar or student of the histories of narcotics, Latin America, and economics. - H-Net Reviews

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Paul Gootenberg is professor of history at Stony Brook University in New York and author or editor of four other books, including Between Silver and Guano: Commercial Policies and the State in Postindependence Peru.

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