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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 571–573.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Benjamin T. Smith Cocaine: From Coca Fields to the Streets . Edited by Enrique Desmond Arias and Thomas Grisaffi . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Table. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. x , 366 pp. Paper, $28.95 . Copyright © 2023...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 560–561.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Tomas Nonnenmacher From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500 – 2000 . Edited by Topik Steven , Marichal Carlos , and Frank Zephyr . American Encounters / Global Interactions . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2006...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (1): 119–150.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Paul Gootenberg Copyright 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Cocaine has a long and mostly forgotten history, which more often than not over the past century has revolved around relationships between the United States and the Andean republic of Peru. 1 This essay examines that U.S...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 307–308.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Paul L. Doughty Coca and Cocaine: An Andean Perspective . By MacGregor Felipe E. . Translated by Cavanagh Jonathan and Underhay Rosemary . Westport : Greenwood Press , 1993 . Tables. Notes. Index . x , 155 pp. Cloth . $49.95 . Copyright 1995 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (3): 524–525.
Published: 01 August 1968
...David Andrews The Cocaine Eaters . By Moser Brian and Tayler Donald . New York , 1967 . Taplinger Publishing Company . Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 204 . $6.95 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 This book is probably the most...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (2): 353.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Donald J. Mabry Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America . By Scott Peter Dale and Marshall Jonathan . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . Notes. Index , xv , 279 pp. Paper . $13.00 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 257–292.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Jaymie Patricia Heilman Abstract Arrests for participation in the global cocaine trade surged in Peru during the 1970s. This article uses court cases to explore complaints in Ayacucho of wrongful arrests in the cocaine trade, examining claims of innocence, false confessions under torture...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (4): 812–813.
Published: 01 November 1986
... dynamic in Bolivia’s recent history: the impact of cocaine production on society. Beyond an outline of that impact, Narcotráfico y política II is a product of the problem it exposes. In a detailed report on the cocaine industry’s debilitating sway over the nation, the book condemns both that continuing...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (1): 149–150.
Published: 01 February 1998
... It’s no secret that since the 1970s cocaine export booms have fundamentally altered Andean states, social relations, and peasantries. Still, there is little research that traces the historical origins of Latin American drug trades, though much is known (or speculated) about their dramatic repercussions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 February 2015
... some 600 metric tons of illicit cocaine a year. The yearly consumption value alone of drugs in the Western Hemisphere is guesstimated at around 150 billion dollars. Trafficker violence that not long ago blighted Colombia's cities has spread to Mexico, where tens of thousands have horrifically perished...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (4): 732–733.
Published: 01 November 1993
... synthesis of the multicultural complexities of the drug problem. The editor and contributors provide a well-documented analysis of the present state of drug consumption, trafficking, and production in the Americas. The primary focus is on cocaine, a substance that in the last 20 years has seen increased...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 592–593.
Published: 01 August 1996
..., the United Nations University, and Brigham Young University. The project intends to analyze, through a multicountry study, the socioeconomic and political impact of the production, trade, and use of illicit drugs. In Bolivia, coca and cocaine production, promoted by a growing demand, has increased...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 338–339.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Press 2021 Before cocaine, there was marijuana. Between 1970 and 1978, the Caribbean coast of Colombia was the center of a massive weed boom, according to this new book by Lina Britto. Marijuana smugglers, or marimberos , employed an array of skiffs, powerboats, crop dusters, and passenger planes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (1): 146–147.
Published: 01 February 1989
... University Press 1989 In the past 30 years, the eastern portion of Bolivia, particularly in the department of Santa Cruz, underwent economic development far greater than any other part of the country. This change led the area to become one of the prime cocaine-processing regions in the world. Leslie...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 768–769.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the last three decades. Historical suggestions abound. Gay lets Bruno open and fill out each chronological recollection of his criminal and carceral past. But at the end of each chapter Gay appends a lucid afterword (i.e., about border smuggling in Brazil, cocaine trafficking, human rights...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 574–576.
Published: 01 August 2010
... yet to what extent Cuba is participating in the efforts to undermine the United States with drugs. But certainly . . . the Communists may be expected to employ narcotics against America” (p. 138). Castro himself drew suspicion of cocaine addiction, because of his inordinately long and energetic speech...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (3): 555–557.
Published: 01 August 2004
... and declining resources for the majority of its peoples, coupled with increased wealth and power for a small minority. More recently, Colombian cocaine distribution has contributed to Ecuadorian money laundering, again to the impoverishment of the vast majority of the population and the increase in wealth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (3): 570–572.
Published: 01 August 2017
... that progressed at “breakneck speed” brought order and economic growth to a country experiencing a demographic transition (p. 11). In chapter 2, he dives into the rise of the marijuana and cocaine businesses, from 1970 to 1983, and explains both as the result of external demand from the United States (p. 33). He...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2025) 105 (1): 134–136.
Published: 01 February 2025
..., for example, Bolivia's eastern “frontier” lands, industrial minerals (including lithium), natural gas, dwindling water supplies, and the politics of coca/cocaine, which Bolivia's plurinational state is coping with today. The book's history of commodity frontiers begins with synthetic overviews...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (1): v.
Published: 01 February 2003
...), Imagining Development: Economic Thought in Peru’s “Fictitious Prosperity” of Guano, 1840–1880 (1993), and, as editor, Cocaine: Global Histories (1999). His current interests are drugs in history and the social sciences and historical practice. laura gotkowitz is Assistant Professor of History...