Cocaine

Global Histories
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-22001-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gootenberg, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).