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Author Gootenberg, Paul, 1954-

Title Andean cocaine [electronic resource] : the making of a global drug / Paul Gootenberg.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

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Description xvii, 442 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-412) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Cocaine industry -- Peru -- History.
Drug traffic -- Peru.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807832295 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807832294 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807859056 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807859052 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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