This is a new view of cocaine's expansive history.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.
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