The Origins of Cocaine: Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes

ISBN-13: 9781138592223 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 178 str.

Paul Gootenberg; Liliana M. Davalos

Opis

Drawing on concepts from both history and anthropology, The Origins of Cocaine explores how three countries - Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia - with divergent different mid-century political trajectories ended up with parallel outcomes in illicit frontier economies and cocalero cultures.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Orphans of Development: The Unanticipated Rise of Illicit Coca in the Amazon Andes, 1950-1990  2. The Ghosts of Development Past: Deforestation and Coca in Western Amazonia  3. Ideas of Modernization and Territorial Transformation in the Rise of Coca: The Case of the Upper Huallaga Valley, Peru  4. Creating Coca Frontiers and cocaleros in Chapare: Bolivia, 1940 to 1990  5. Economic Development Policies in Colombia (1960s-1990s) and the Turn to Coca in the Andes Amazon  6. The Making of a Coca Frontier: The Case of Ariari, Colombia 7. Epilogue: Will Governments Confront Coca Cultivation, or its Causes?