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Feiling, Tom.
Cocaine nation :
how the white trade took over the world /
Tom Feiling.
1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
New York :
Pegasus Books,
2010.
©2009.
xvi, 350 p. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-316) and index.
Publisher's Weekly, May 2010.
Kirkus Review, May 2010.
Publisher's Weekly.
Kirkus Review.
The author traces the history of the cocaine industry, examining the ways that the drug has been cultivated, distributed, and used between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries; describing the roles of consumers, traders, producers, traffickers, and government personnel; and discussing the effectiveness of efforts to curb drug usage and distribution.
Adult
Follett Library Resources.
Adult.
20100901.
Cocaine
History.
Cocaine industry
History.