Smack : heroin and the American city /
Through interviews with former junkies and clinic workers and in-depth archival research, Schneider also chronicles the dramatically shifting demographic profile of heroin users. Originally popular among working-class whites in the 1920s, heroin became associated with jazz musicians and Beat writers...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2008.
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Colección: | Politics and culture in modern America.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Requiem for the city
- 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
- Conclusion: Heroin markets redux.