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Paul Gootenberg (Editor)

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0415220017 978-0415220019 October 7, 1999 1
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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Cocaine history is back, and more sophisticated than ever. Cocaine is an important resource for anyone interested in drug history and politics, and an indispensable one for those who would understand cocaine in global context.
–David Courtwright, University of North Florida

Cocaine:Global Histories includes a discussion of the United States experience (by Spillane himself) but also describes the experience of several other societies, past and present..
–Philip Jenkins The Journal of American History

I...strongly recommend this text for reading by any serious student of the cocaine dilemma.
Pharmacy in History

About the Author

Paul Gootenberg is Professor of History at SUNY, Stony Brook and author of Between Silver and Guano (1989) and Imagining Development (1993).

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Cocaine made its first appearance in the United States during the 1880s, when physicians first interested themselves in the drug's therapeutic potential. Read the first page
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crude cocaine, licit cocaine, coca seedlings, underground drug scene, packaged remedies, cocaine prohibitions, modern cocaine, catarrh cures, legal cocaine, early cocaine, coca producers, coca industry, ethical firms, cocaine products, coca products, cocaine experience, cocaine producers, international opium conference, cocaine control, cocaine industry, patent medicine firms, cocaine history, cocaine factory, drug underground, cocaine preparations
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United States, New York, Interior Ministry, Foreign Office, League of Nations, West End, Dutch East Indies, Imperial Health Office, Bureau of Chemistry, Hague Convention, Opium Act, Sankyo Pharmaceutical, Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, Hague Conference, Paz Solddn, South America, Taiwan Shoyaku, Association of Coca Producers, State Department, Paul Gootenberg, The Times, Japan Statistical Reports, Mexico City, Opium Commission, Relaciones Exteriores
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