Cocaine: Global Histories

by Paul Gootenberg (Editor)

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
* 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.

Genres: History

213 pages, ebook

First published September 9, 1999

Reviews

[Florence Ivy]

read the introduction and the last chapter on Mendellín, interesting and well written consideration of the ongoing effects on the culture and politics of the city

[Victoria · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a book on the global history of cocaine, it does a good job looking at specific countries heavily involved in cocaine but does not follow through to where that cocaine ended up going to (aka what i neeeeed for my research)

[University of Chicago Magazine]

Paul Gootenberg, AB'78, PhD'85
Editor

From our pages (Oct/00): "This book examines the drug's early history with a global perspective from 1880 to 1950 and its transformation from miracle drug to global pariah."