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Cocaine : an unauthorized biography / Dominic Streatfeild.
Van Pelt Library QP801.C68 S77 2002
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Streatfeild, Dominic.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cocaine--History.
- Cocaine.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 510 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- This is the definitive true story of the worldUs most notorious narcotic. The history of cocaine isn't just about crime and profit. It is also about psychoanalysis, empire building, exploitation, addiction, emancipation and, in the end, power.
- Contents:
- 1 Introducing Coca 1
- 2 De Jussieu Loses His Marbles 37
- 3 From Coca to Coca-ine 55
- 4 The Third Scourge of Humanity 66
- 5 Craving for, and Fear of, Sigmund Freud 105
- 6 Patent Cures, Snake Oils and Sex 117
- 7 Blacks, Chinks, Coolies and Brits 138
- 8 Down ... But Not Out 174
- 9 Comeback 195
- 10 George, Carlos and the Cocaine Explosion 211
- 11 Pablo, Roberto and the Fiances of Death 245
- 12 Crack (Man Bites Dog) 271
- 13 Sandinista! 324
- 14 The Horsemen of Cocaine 345
- 15 Mexico 362
- 16 Bolivia 384
- 17 Peru 409
- 18 Colombia 431.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Great Britain : Virgin Publishing, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312286244
- OCLC:
- 49882652
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