Cocaine: Global Histories

by Gootenberg,Paul

• ISBN13: 9780415192477
• ISBN10: 0415192471
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Originally a medical miracle, cocaine is now a dangerous pariah. Drawing on exciting international perspectives,Cocaineanalyzes and rethinks the origins of the modern drug. For the first time a book brings together the world's leading writers on the history of cocaine. Themes explored include: the manufacture, sale, and control of cocaine in the United States; Amsterdam's complex cocaine culture; Japan and the Southeast Asian cocaine industry; export of cocaine prohibitions to Peru; and sex, drugs and race in London.Cocaineunveils new sources and covert social, cultural and political transformations that reveal cocaine's hidden history. Contributors: Luis Astorga, H. Richard Friman, Paul Gootenberg, Steven B. Karch, Marek Kohn, Marcel de Kort, Ethan Nadelmann, Mary Roldan, and Joseph F. Spillane.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. viii
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: cocaine: the hidden histories	p. 1
A brief "historiography" of cocaine	p. 2
Cocaine histories: the third wave	p. 5
Cocaine: cases, countries, contexts	p. 9
Afterthoughts: towards a new drug history?	p. 12
Amer-Andean connections (the United States, Peru)
Making a modern drug: the manufacture, sale, and control of cocaine in the United States, 1880-1920	p. 21
The pharmaceutical industry and cocaine sales	p. 22
The Progressive critique of cocaine selling	p. 27
Regulation and its impact	p. 34
Reluctance or resistance? Constructing cocaine (prohibitions) in Peru, 1910-50	p. 46
Political economies of national cocaine (1880-1930)	p. 47
Peru's national cocaine debate (1929-39)	p. 56
From global war to wars on cocaine (1939-50)	p. 63
Concluding on cocaine	p. 72
European axis, Asian circuits (Germany, Britain, the Netherlands and Java, Japan)
Germany and the transformations of cocaine, 1880-1920	p. 83
The German cocaine industry	p. 83
Cocaine's first transformations	p. 87
Germany and the Hague Convention	p. 91
The war, aftermaths, and cocaine's transformation	p. 95
Conclusion	p. 99
Cocaine girls: sex, drugs, and modernity in London during and after the First World War	p. 105
Cocaine, drug panics, and "modernity"	p. 105
Cocaine in London, 1901-14	p. 105
The West End's war	p. 110
After "DORA," 1916-22	p. 118
Doctors, diplomats, and businessmen: conflicting interests in the Netherlands and Dutch East Indies, 1860-1950	p. 123
From medicine to mood-altering drug, 1884-1919	p. 123
Dutch drug policy from 1919 to 1940	p. 126
Coca leaf from the Dutch East Indies	p. 129
Drug trades and drug control, 1920-40	p. 137
Conclusions	p. 141
Japan and the cocaine industry of Southeast Asia, 1864-1944	p. 146
Introduction	p. 146
How coca came to Southeast Asia	p. 147
Coca cultivars and coca chemistry	p. 148
Demise of the Dutch and rise of Japanese plantations	p. 150
Taiwanese coca	p. 150
The legal system and Japan's drug industry	p. 152
The role of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals and Sankyo Pharmaceutical	p. 153
Creative cocaine accounting	p. 155
The role of the military	p. 156
Conclusions	p. 158
The new American nexus (Colombia, Mexico)
Colombia: cocaine and the "miracle" of modernity in Medellin	p. 165
The scope of the essay	p. 165
The early years of the cocaine trade	p. 166
The demise of "traditional values": cocaine as catalyst for class struggle	p. 171
Cocaine's lessons? Responses to Escobar's death and State repression	p. 175
Epilogue	p. 178
Cocaine in Mexico: a prelude to "los Narcos"	p. 183
Coca to cocaine, 1880s-1960s	p. 183
Rise of Sinaloan Narcos, 1970-	p. 186
Bibliography	p. 192
Index	p. 204
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