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Cocaine: Global Histories
Gootenberg, Paul (Ed). Cocaine: Global Histories. Routledge. September 1999, 291 pages.
 "...Paul Gootenberg's edited volume is valuable in so many ways. As the first substantial book on global cocaine history, it automatically makes a major contribution to the small but growing interdisciplinary arena of drug history, which has focused (at least as far as "illegal drugs are concerned) largely on the opiates. The authors have all made valuable uses of archives, both virgin and well worn, from around the world. They build responsibly on the extant literature, demonstrating a level of sophistication and insight that heralds a maturation of the field. And Gootenberg's talents are evident in the elegant complementarity of the diverse methodologies and perspectives displayed in various chapters..."
-- From the foreword by Ethan Nadelmann, The Lindesmith Center
"Truly international in its scope, Cocaine is the first historical survey of perhaps the most paradoxical of this century's major narcotics. Readers will welcome the balanced attention given to the scientific, medical, commercial, legal and cultural dimensions of the story."
--Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
About the Editor
Paul Gootenberg is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and author of Between Silver and Guano (Princeton, 1989) and Imagining Development (California, 1993).
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