Andean cocaine
Subtitle: the making of a global drug
By: Paul Gootenberg.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780807832295; 9780807859056
Subjects: Cocaine Industry -- History -- Peru; Drug traffic -- Peru
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cocaine as Andean history; title: Imagining coca, discovering cocaine, 1850-1890; title: Making a national commodity : Peruvian crude cocaine, 1885-1910; title: Cocaine enchained : global commodity circuits, 1890s-1930s; title: Withering cocaine : Peruvian responses, 1910-1945; title: Anticocaine : from reluctance to global prohibitions, 1910-1950; title: Birth of the narcos : Pan-American illicit networks, 1945-1965; title: The drug boom (1965-1975) and beyond.