Smack : Heroin and the American City /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schneider, Eric C., 1951-
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Colección:Politics and culture in modern America.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Drug control > United States > History.
Drug traffic > United States > History.
Minorities > Substance use > United States > History.
Heroin abuse > United States > History.
Electronic books.
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.

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