Smack : Heroin and the American City /

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Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs.During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital-o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schneider, Eric C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Colección:Politics and Culture in Modern America
Temas:
Drug control > United States > History.
Drug traffic > United States > History.
HISTORY > United States > 20th century.
Heroin abuse > United States > History.
History > 20th century.
Minorities > Substance use > United States > History.
Minorities > Substance use.
American Studies.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
American History.
Urban Studies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: REQUIEM FOR THE CITY
  • CHAPTER ONE. New York and the Global Market
  • CHAPTER TWO. Jazz Joints and Junk
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Plague
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Panic over Adolescent Heroin Use
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Ethnicity and the Market
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Rising Tide
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Dealing with Dope
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Heroin Suburbanizes
  • CHAPTER NINE. The War and the War at Home
  • CHAPTER TEN. From the Golden Spike to the Glass Pipe
  • CONCLUSION. Heroin Markets Redux
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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