The Origins of Cocaine - Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes (Paperback)

In the 1960s, the governments of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia launched agricultural settlement programs in each country's vast Amazonian frontier lowlands. Two decades later, these exact same zones had transformed into the centers of the illicit cocaine boom of the Americas. Drawing on concepts from both history and anthropology, The Origins of Cocaine explores how three countries with divergent different mid-century political trajectories ended up with parallel outcomes in illicit frontier economies and cocalero cultures. Bringing together transnational, national, and local analyses, the volume provides an in-depth examination of the deep origins of drug economics in the Americas. As the first substantial study on the shift from agrarian colonization to narcotization, The Origins of Cocaine will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students of Latin American history, anthropology, globalization, development and environmental studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2020
First published:	2018
Editors:	Paul Gootenberg • Liliana Davalos
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	178
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-46458-5
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Drugs trade / drug trafficking Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Agriculture & related industries Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-367-46458-6
Barcode:	9780367464585

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