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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.
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.
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INDEX
- Abdallah, Mario, 283
- Academia Libre de Medicina de Lima, 1, 36, 38, 43, 45
- Academia Nacional de Medicina, 36
- āAcciĆ³n fisiolĆ³gica de la cocaĆnaā (Bignon), 39
- AcharƔn clan, 83
- Acosta, JosƩ de, 19
- Addiction: to Coca-Cola, 138, 200;
- criminalization of, 206;
- to opiates, 28, 30
- Addiction to cocaine: hospitalization for, 179;
- likelihood of, 10, 17, 25;
- in Peru, 179;
- in U.S., 30, 204ā5, 249ā50
- Advertising: for cocaine, 59, 60, 66;
- for coca leaf, 25
- African Americans: Coca-Cola consumption by, 198ā99;
- crack cocaine use by, 312;
- heroin use by, 308;
- in prison, 313;
- and U.S. anticocainism, 193
- Agency: in rise of cocaine, 9, 56, 70, 318ā20
- Agnew, Derek, 272
- A. Goicochea and Company, 82, 83
- Agriculture, U.S. Department of, 294
- Agriculture au PĆ©rou, Lā (Martinet), 45
- Agronomy: in Peru, 151ā54, 293ā94
- Aguillera, Lucho, 269
- Aid, U.S.: to Bolivia, 284;
- to Peru, 297
- ALAKEA project, 241
- Ćlamos, Guillermo, 303
- Ćlamos, Olmedo, 303
- AlarcĆ³n, Rafael, 303
- Alba Medina, Junto, 269
- Albornoz, Mariano MartĆn, 47ā49
- Alcohol: coca as substitute for, 28, 60;
- coca combined with, 25ā26, 28, 57, 61;
- U.S. consumption of, 27, 28
- AldaƱa Conde, MarĆa, 302
- Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) Party, 162, 168, 233...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Andean Cocaine
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES, FIGURES, AND MAPS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHRONOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION
- I: COCAINE RISING
- II: COCAINE FALLING
- III: ILLICIT COCAINE
- APPENDIX
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX