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A brief history of cocaine / Steven B. Karch.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c1998.Description: 202 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0849340195 (acid-free paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QP801.C68 K369 1998
Contents:
ch. 1. First drug dealers -- ch. 2. Botanists and pedestrians -- ch. 3. Celebrity drug endorsements -- ch. 4. Freud, Koller, and the mummy's curse -- ch. 5. Therapeutic bouquets and brickbats -- ch. 6. Coca Java and the Southeast Asia coca industry -- ch. 7. Drugmakers become drug dealers -- ch. 8. Quack drugs and quack scientists -- ch. 9. "Legitimate business of poisoning hindoos" -- ch. 10. Japan's adventures in the cocaine trade -- ch. 11. Government-sponsored drug dealing.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-194) and index.

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ch. 1. First drug dealers -- ch. 2. Botanists and pedestrians -- ch. 3. Celebrity drug endorsements -- ch. 4. Freud, Koller, and the mummy's curse -- ch. 5. Therapeutic bouquets and brickbats -- ch. 6. Coca Java and the Southeast Asia coca industry -- ch. 7. Drugmakers become drug dealers -- ch. 8. Quack drugs and quack scientists -- ch. 9. "Legitimate business of poisoning hindoos" -- ch. 10. Japan's adventures in the cocaine trade -- ch. 11. Government-sponsored drug dealing.