Cocaine: Global HistoriesPaul Gootenberg Routledge, 2002 M01 4 - 232 pages 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: |
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... authority on cocaine , his textbook The Pathology of Drug Abuse ( CRC Press , 1996 ) is standard reference in the field . He recently published A Brief History of Cocaine ( CRC Press , 1998 ) . Marek Kohn is a British writer ...
... authority on cocaine , his textbook The Pathology of Drug Abuse ( CRC Press , 1996 ) is standard reference in the field . He recently published A Brief History of Cocaine ( CRC Press , 1998 ) . Marek Kohn is a British writer ...
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... authority on cocaine ; an economic historian of Latin America with an expertise in nineteenth - century commodity trades ; a European drug policy adviser with a doctorate in history ; a writer from British cultural studies drawn to ...
... authority on cocaine ; an economic historian of Latin America with an expertise in nineteenth - century commodity trades ; a European drug policy adviser with a doctorate in history ; a writer from British cultural studies drawn to ...
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... authority by 1950 . It is relevant to note that by the mid - 1950s , cold - war routes of clandestine supply turned back to the long - marginalized Andes , though here again shifting commodity chains took hold . These layer our current ...
... authority by 1950 . It is relevant to note that by the mid - 1950s , cold - war routes of clandestine supply turned back to the long - marginalized Andes , though here again shifting commodity chains took hold . These layer our current ...
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... authority Dr Steven Karch in Chapter 7. As cocaine became fenced in by the West after 1912 , expansive Japanese industrialists and colonial officials took heed of opportunities and forged a new sphere of cocaine interests in a process ...
... authority Dr Steven Karch in Chapter 7. As cocaine became fenced in by the West after 1912 , expansive Japanese industrialists and colonial officials took heed of opportunities and forged a new sphere of cocaine interests in a process ...
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... authority determined the therapeutic claims companies made for their products , or if they truthfully reported their remedies ' ingredients . The chief authority , it seems , was that of the market place . If consumers chose to dose ...
... authority determined the therapeutic claims companies made for their products , or if they truthfully reported their remedies ' ingredients . The chief authority , it seems , was that of the market place . If consumers chose to dose ...
Contents
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Reluctance or resistance? Constructing cocaine | 46 |
Perus national cocaine debate 192939 | 56 |
From global war to wars on cocaine 193950 | 63 |
Concluding on cocaine | 72 |
PART II | 81 |
Dutch drug policy from 1919 to 1940 | 126 |
Drug trades and drug control 192040 | 137 |
Japan and the cocaine industry of Southeast Asia 18641944 | 146 |
The legal system and Japans drug industry | 152 |
Conclusions | 158 |
PART III | 163 |
cocaine as catalyst for class struggle | 171 |
Epilogue | 178 |
Cocaines first transformations | 87 |
The war aftermaths and cocaines transformation | 95 |
sex drugs and modernity in London | 105 |
After DORA 191622 | 118 |
Rise of the Sinaloan Narcos 1970 | 186 |
Bibliography | 192 |
Index | 204 |
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