Coca Exotica : the illustrated story of cocaine
Joseph Kennedy
Bok · Engelsk · 1985
| Utgitt | New York : Cornwall , c1985
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| Omfang | 142 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | The Incas: cocaine adaptations in the First Millenium A.D. A small band of curious men: Pizarro seizes Peru and coca. Imperial Spain and the Inca leaf. Pirates, priests, and poets: coca in Western Europe. The age of enlightenment and the isolation of a fugitive alkaloid. Freud, Koller, and the discovery of local anesthesia. The first cocaine disasters in Europe and in America: a tale of two addictions. Belle epoque: cocaine adaptations in the 1890s. Patent medicines and drug laws: from grean leaf to white grief. Illicit cocaine in the 1920s: America's second civil war. The movement to exterminate coca: a case of botanical imperialism. The 1960s and the 1970s: "Cocaine don't drive me crazy". Cocaine magic, cocaine myth: a recurring historical dilemma.
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| ISBN | 0845347780
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