Cocaine, a substance of notoriety today, is certainly no new drug or menace on the global
scene. From 1860, when first synthesized in a German lab from dried Peruvian coca leaf, to …

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 …

A Brief History of Cocaine, Second Edition provides a fascinating historical insight into the
reasons why cocaine use is increasing in popularity and why the rise of the cocaine trade is …

The rising cultivation, consumption, and export of this so precious article of our agricultural
production [coca]—once widely known and used for health purposes—will replace tea and …

Cocaine, after cannabis, is the second most widely consumed illicit drug in the world. This
chapter focuses on the deeper historical plasticity of cocaine, leading into its rapidly …

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 …

Cocaine is big business and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable
war against it, yet it's now the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy get …

The history of cocaine is charted with specific reference to its usefulness as a medicine and
local anesthetic. It is common knowledge that coca leaves were used as a panacea and …