The Origins of Cocaine Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andies

Other author Gootenberg, Paul Editor
Other author D©Łvalos, Liliana M. Editor
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge Florence : Taylor & Francis Group [Distributor]
Description190 p. ill 24.200 x 016.200 cm.
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Summary Annotation 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.
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ISBN9781138592223
ISBN1138592226 (Trade Cloth) Forthcoming
Standard identifier# 9781138592223
Stock numberK387077 00081154

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