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Smack : heroin and the American city Eric C. Schneider
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HV 5822 .H4 S36 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schneider, Eric C., 1951-
- Series:
- Politics and culture in modern America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heroin abuse--United States--History.
- Heroin abuse.
- Minorities--Substance use--United States--History.
- Minorities.
- Drug traffic--United States--History.
- Drug traffic.
- Drug control--United States--History.
- Drug control.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
- Contents:
- New York and the global market
- Jazz joints and junk
- The plague
- The panic over adolescent heroin use
- Ethnicity and the market
- The rising tide
- Dealing with dope
- Heroin suburbanizes
- The war and the war at home
- From the Golden Spike to the Glass Pipe
- Heroin markets redux.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812241167 (alk. paper)
- 0812241169 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 202544158
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