The Coca Leaf and Cocaine Papers
Author : George Andrews
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Author : George Andrews
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Author : Robert C. Petersen
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Coca
ISBN :
Author : Paul Gootenberg
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080788779X
Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illegal Latin American exports: cocaine. Gootenberg traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Connecting the story of the drug's transformations is a host of people, products, and processes: Sigmund Freud, Coca-Cola, and Pablo Escobar all make appearances, exemplifying the global influences that have shaped the history of cocaine. But Gootenberg decenters the familiar story to uncover the roles played by hitherto obscure but vital Andean actors as well--for example, the Peruvian pharmacist who developed the techniques for refining cocaine on an industrial scale and the creators of the original drug-smuggling networks that decades later would be taken over by Colombian traffickers. Andean Cocaine proves indispensable to understanding one of the most vexing social dilemmas of the late twentieth-century Americas: the American cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and, in its wake, the seemingly endless U.S. drug war in the Andes.
Author : Bartow J. Elmore
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393245934
"Citizen Coke demostrate[s] a complete lack of understanding about…the Coca-Cola system—past and present." —Ted Ryan, the Coca-Cola Company By examining “the real thing” ingredient by ingredient, this brilliant history shows how Coke used a strategy of outsourcing and leveraged free public resources, market muscle, and lobbying power to build a global empire on the sale of sugary water. Coke became a giant in a world of abundance but is now embattled in a world of scarcity, its products straining global resources and fueling crises in public health.
Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Cocaine
ISBN : 9780883730102
Contains all of Freud's "cocaine papers," his letters, notes, dreams, and recollections on the subject, together with the most pertinent writings from the 19th century to the present on Freud and cocaine. Bibliography: p. 399-400. Includes index.
Author : Catherine J. Allen
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1588343596
This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was in 1985.
Author : Michael Taussig
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2009-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226790150
In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the famous Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, the Banco de la República, Taussig's museum is also a parody aimed at the museum's failure to acknowledge the African slaves who mined the country's wealth for almost four hundred years. Combining natural history with political history in a filmic, montage style, Taussig deploys the show-and-tell modality of a museum to engage with the inner life of heat, rain, stone, and swamp, no less than with the life of gold and cocaine. This effort to find a poetry of words becoming things is brought to a head by the explosive qualities of those sublime fetishes of evil beauty, gold and cocaine. At its core, Taussig's museum is about the lure of forbidden things, charged substances that transgress moral codes, the distinctions we use to make sense of the world, and above all the conventional way we write stories.
Author : Suzanna Reiss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2014-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520280784
This history of US-led international drug control provides new perspectives on the economic, ideological, and political foundations of a Cold War American empire. US officials assumed the helm of international drug control after World War II at a moment of unprecedented geopolitical influence embodied in the growing economic clout of its pharmaceutical industry. We Sell Drugs is a study grounded in the transnational geography and political economy of the coca-leaf and coca-derived commodities market stretching from Peru and Bolivia into the United States. More than a narrow biography of one famous plant and its equally famous derivative products—Coca-Cola and cocaine—this book situates these commodities within the larger landscape of drug production and consumption. Examining efforts to control the circuits through which coca traveled, Suzanna Reiss provides a geographic and legal basis for considering the historical construction of designations of legality and illegality. The book also argues that the legal status of any given drug is largely premised on who grew, manufactured, distributed, and consumed it and not on the qualities of the drug itself. Drug control is a powerful tool for ordering international trade, national economies, and society’s habits and daily lives. In a historical landscape animated by struggles over political economy, national autonomy, hegemony, and racial equality, We Sell Drugs insists on the socio-historical underpinnings of designations of legality to explore how drug control became a major weapon in asserting control of domestic and international affairs.
Author : M. D. W. GOLDEN MORTIMER
Publisher : Ronin Publishing (CA)
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781579512460
Explores the fascinating romantic history of the Divine Plant of the Incas. Includes how to make coca tea for a mild picker-upper that challenges coffee
Author : P. Clawson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349609781
It is commonly known that the Andean nations of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia are the international centers of cocaine production. But until now, there has been no comprehensive view of this billion dollar industry. Using never-before unearthed information culled from their extensive field research, Patrick Clawson and Rensselaer Lee reveal the configuration of the drug industry, from the original cultivation of coca in the fields of South America to the sale of cocaine on the streets of the United States. The authors analyze the economic and political impact of the drug business on the Andean nations, including such problems as violence and the undermining of legitimate business. Through the ground-breaking work of Clawson and Lee, The Andean Cocaine Industry illuminates one of the most pervasive problems facing the world today.