Cocaine: Global HistoriesPaul Gootenberg Psychology Press, 1999 - 213 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: * Amsterdam's complex cocaine culture * the manufacture, sale and control of cocaine in the United States * Japan and the Southeast Asian cocaine industry * export of cocaine prohibitions to Peru * sex, drugs and race in early modern London Cocaine unveils new primary sources and covert social, cultural and political transformations to shed light on cocaine's hidden history. |
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Contents
cocaine the hidden histories | 1 |
cases countries contexts | 9 |
PART I | 19 |
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 |
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