Titre : | White mischief: a cultural history of cocaine |
Auteurs : | T. MADGE |
Type de document : | Livre |
Editeur : | London : Mainstream Publishing, 2001 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-84018-405-1 |
Format : | 204 p. |
Note générale : |
London, Mainstream Publishing, 2001, 204 p.
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Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | SHS (Sciences humaines et sociales / Humanities and social sciences) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus géographique ETATS-UNISThésaurus mots-clés COCAINE ; HISTOIRE ; STYLE DE VIE ; CONSOMMATION ; USAGE RECREATIF ; POLITIQUE ; ETHNIE ; LEGISLATION ; CRACK |
Résumé : |
Cocaine has a unique place in the history of illegal recreational drugs. Remaining near the top of the liste of drugs governments have vowed to eliminate, cocaine has kept its street credibility and underground status as the champagne drug, associated in many people's mind with a high-living, high-rolling lifestyle. Production of cocaine from coca leaves is increasing. Prices are steady. The mass media treat its recreational use by the rich and famous as more of a naughty prank than a potentially deadly vice. The coca plant is still legally chewed by millions of South Americans, producing a mild high akin to that of caffeine. More famously, coca extract remains a core ingredient of Coca-Cola, albeit with the cocaine content now removed.
To understand the cultural history of cocaine we have to make a journey back many thousands of year, to its first recorded use in South America. In more recent history, it was revered as the "food of gods" by the Incas ; and within a quarter-century of its discovery 150 years ago, cocaine's career began in earnest. In the 1880s an astonishing array of medics in Europe -notably Sigmund Freud- and the USA pushed it as the wonder drug of the age. Its fall from grace was just as sudden. Moral panic in the early twentieth-century United States led governments across the world to follow its example and ban cocaine. Today, the USA is locked into a major covert armed struggle, attempting to stop cocaine exports from Columbia spiralling ever higher. Cocaine re-emerged in the 1970s and '80's as a recreational drug of choice for millions of people in America, Britain and Europe. The use of cocaine is now becoming commonplace. But it remains a drug about which opinion - among both users and non-users- is ambivalent. This comprehensive book examines and re-evaluates the long history of both coca plant and cocaine? And it poses the question : do our current attitudes and official policies need a fundamental and starting rethink ? (Editor' s abstract) |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Refs biblio. : | 48 |
Affiliation : | Royaume-Uni. United Kingdom. |
Centre Emetteur : | 13 OFDT |
Cote : | L00671 |
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