Andean cocaine : the making of a global drug / Paul Gootenberg.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008], ©2008.

xvii, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction : cocaine as Andean history -- Imagining coca, discovering cocaine, 1850-1890 -- Making a national commodity : Peruvian crude cocaine, 1885-1910 -- Cocaine enchained : global commodity circuits, 1890s-1930s -- Withering cocaine : Peruvian responses, 1910-1945 -- Anticocaine : from reluctance to global prohibitions, 1910-1950 -- Birth of the narcos : Pan-American illicit networks, 1945-1965 -- The drug boom (1965-1975) and beyond.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-412) and index.