A Brief History of Cocaine, Second Edition provides a fascinating historical insight into the reasons why cocaine use is increasing in popularity and why the ri

Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illega

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This volume examines the history of cocaine from its discovery in 1499 - when it was used to cure everything from stomach maladies to snow blindness - to the wo