Overview
This volume examines the rise and fall of cocaine. In the 19th century it was openly legal and legitimately used by scientists, medics and pharmaceutical manufacturers alike. This contrasts starkly with the international prohibitionist regimes and drug gangs linked to cocaine 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 cociane industry; export of cocaine prohibitions to Peru; and sex, drugs and race in early modern London. The book unveils primary sources and covert social, cultural and political transformations to shed light on cocaine's hidden history.
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Author: Paul Gootenberg
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780415192477
ISBN 10: 0415192471
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 09 September 1999
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction, Paul Gootenberg; Part I Amer-Andean connections (the United States, Peru); Chapter 2 Making a modern drug, Joseph F. Spillane; Chapter 3 Reluctance or resistance?, Paul Gootenberg; Part II European axis, Asian circuits (Germany, Britain, the Netherlands and Java, Japan); Chapter 4 Germany and the transformations of cocaine, 1860–1920, H. Richard Friman; Chapter 5 Cocaine girls, Marek Kohn; Chapter 6 Doctors, diplomats, and businessmen, Marcel de Kort; Chapter 7 Japan and the cocaine industry of Southeast Asia, 1864–1944, Steven B. Karch; Part III The new American nexus (Colombia, Mexico); Chapter 8 Colombia, Mary Roldán; Chapter 9 Cocaine in Mexico, Astorga Luis, Paul Gootenberg;
Reviews
Cocaine history is back, and more sophisticated than ever. Cocaine is an important resource for anyone interested in drug history and politics, and an indispensable one for those who would understand cocaine in global context. <br>-David Courtwright, University of North Florida <br> Cocaine: Global Histories includes a discussion of the United States experience (by Spillane himself) but also describes the experience of several other societies, past and present.. <br>-Philip Jenkins The Journal of American History <br> I...strongly recommend this text for reading by any serious student of the cocaine dilemma. <br>- Pharmacy in History <br>
Cocaine history is back, and more sophisticated than ever. Cocaine is an important resource for anyone interested in drug history and politics, and an indispensable one for those who would understand cocaine in global context. -David Courtwright, University of North Florida Cocaine: Global Histories includes a discussion of the United States experience (by Spillane himself) but also describes the experience of several other societies, past and present.. -Philip Jenkins The Journal of American History I...strongly recommend this text for reading by any serious student of the cocaine dilemma. - Pharmacy in History
Author Information
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).
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