Andean Cocaine : The Making of a Global Drug /

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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 centur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gootenberg, Paul, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Drug traffic.
Cocaine industry.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Service.
Drogues > Trafic > Perou.
Cocaïne > Industrie > Perou > Histoire.
Drug traffic > Peru.
Cocaine industry > Peru > History.
Peru.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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