Andean cocaine : the making of a global drug /

Gootenberg, Paul, 1954

Andean cocaine : the making of a global drug / Paul Gootenberg. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008. - xvii, 442 p. : ill. forms., photg.; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-412) and index.

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.

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Cocaine industry--History.--Peru
Drug traffic--Peru.


Industria de la Cocaina--Historia--Perú
Tráfico de drogas--Perú

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