Cocaine global histories
Cocaine examines the rise and fall of this notorious substance from its legitimate use by scientists and medics in the nineteenth century to the international prohibitionist regimes and drug gangs of today. Themes explored include: * Amsterdam's complex cocaine culture * the manufacture, sale...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
1999.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798031606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: cocaine: the hidden histories; Making a modern drug: the manufacture, sale, and control of cocaine in the United States, 1880 1920; Reluctance or resistance? Constructing cocaine (prohibitions) in Peru, 1910 50; Germany and the transformations of cocaine, 1880 1920; Cocaine girls: sex, drugs, and modernity in London during and after the First World War; Doctors, diplomats, and businessmen: conflicting interests in the Netherlands and Dutch East Indies, 1860 1950
- Japan and the cocaine industry of Southeast Asia, 1864 1944Colombia: cocaine and the ~miracle~ of modernity in Medelln; Cocaine in Mexico: a prelude to ~los Narcos~; Bibliography; Index
