Andean cocaine : the making of a global drug / Paul Gootenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gootenberg, Paul, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cocaine industry--Peru--History.

Cocaine industry.

Drug traffic--Peru.

Drug traffic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illegal Latin American exports: cocaine. Gootenberg traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Connecting the story of the drug's transformations is a host of people, products, and processes: Sigmund Freud, Coca-Cola, and Pablo Escobar all make appearances, exemplifying the

Contents:

Introduction : cocaine as Andean history

Imagining coca, discovering cocaine, 1850-1890

Making a national commodity : Peruvian crude cocaine, 1885-1910

Cocaine enchained : global commodity circuits, 1890s-1930s

Withering cocaine : Peruvian responses, 1910-1945

Anticocaine : from reluctance to global prohibitions, 1910-1950

Birth of the narcos : Pan-American illicit networks, 1945-1965

The drug boom (1965-1975) and beyond.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-412) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-354-7

979-88-908838-0-3

1-4696-0582-1

0-8078-8779-X

OCLC:

405092001