Recommended Reading on Cocaine
I have highlighted in bold the books that I particularly enjoyed:
Reading Menu
General Books about Cocaine
The History of Cocaine
Drugs and the Media
Drug Taking, Drug Users, Addiction
Buying and Selling Drugs in the US
Race, Society and Prisons in the US
Cocaine in the Caribbean & Central America
Colombia and US Foreign Policy
Questioning the War on Drugs
Policing and the War on Drugs
Political and Financial Corruption
Other Countries' Perspectives
Miscellaneous
General Books about Cocaine
Cocaine: An Annotated Bibliography
Carlton E. Turner, University of Mississippi 1988
White Mischief: A Cultural History of Cocaine
Tim Madge, Mainstream 2001
The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics
R. Davenport-Hines, London: Phoenix 2004
Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
Courtwright, David T, Harvard University Press 2001
The Steel Drug: Cocaine and Crack in Perspective
Patricia Erickson, Lexington 1994
The Great Issues of Drug Policy
eds. Trebach and Zeese, Drug Policy Foundation 1990
The Gentlemen's Club: International Control of Drugs and Alcohol
Bruun, Kettil, Lynn Pan and Ingemar Rexed, University of Chicago 1975
Criminology
S. Barkan, Prentice Hall 1997
The History of Cocaine
Freud and Cocaine: The Freudian Fallacy
E.M. Thornton, Blond and Briggs 1983
Cocaine: Global Histories
Ed. Paul Gootenberg, Routledge 1999
Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America
Edward Behr (on video)
Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb and the Good Templars
David Fahey
Deliver US From Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition
Norman H. Clark, Norton 1976
The United States and International Drug Control: 19091997
Dave Bewley Taylor, Pinter 1999 & Continuum 2001
Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century
Mike Jay, Dedalus Press 2005
Drugs in America: A Social History 1800-1980
H.W. Morgan, Syracuse University Press 1981
Drugs and the Media
Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice
Eds. Craig Reinarman and Harry Levine, Uni. Of California Press 1997
Cracked Coverage: TV News, The Anti-Cocaine Crusade and The Reagan Legacy
Jimmie Lynn Reeves and Richard Campbell, Duke University Press 1994
Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics
Curtis Marez, Uni of Minnesota Press 2004
Synthetic Panics: The Symbolic Politics of Designer Drugs
Philip Jenkins, NYU Press 1999
My Cocaine Museum
Michael Taussig, University of Chicago Press 2004
Drug Taking, Drug Users, Addiction
Drug, Set and Setting: The Basis For Controlled Intoxicant Use
Norman Zinberg, Yale University Press 1984
Cocaine and Crack: Supply and Use
Ed. Bean, Philip T., New York: St. Martin's Press 1993
Crack: The Broken Promise
Allen and Jekel, Macmillan 1991
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
M. Douglas, Routledge 1978
Crack and Cocaine
David Browne, F.Watts 1987
Cocaine Changes: The Experience of Using and Quitting
Waldorf, Reinarman and Murphy, Temple University Press 1991
The Psychology of Addiction
M. McMurran, Taylor and Francis 1994
Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions of Doing Evil
Jack Katz, Basic Books 1988
The Disreputable Pleasures
JL Hagan, McGraw-Hill Ryerson 1991
Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance
Goode and Nachman, Blackwell 1994
The Cult of Pharmacology
Richard Degrandpre, Duke University Press 2006
The Medicine Society
Paul Scriven, Michigan State University Press 1992
Cultural Politics and Social Movements
Eds. Darnovsky, Epstein, and Flacks, Temple University Press 1995
(for Craig Reinarmann's Chapter: 'The 12-Step Movement and Advanced Capitalist Culture:Notes on the Politics of Self-Control in Postmodernity')
The Myth of Addiction
John Booth Davies (he teaches at the University of Strathclyde)
Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids
Maia Szalavitz, Riverhead 2006
The Meaning of Addiction: Compulsive Behaviour and It's Interpretation
Stanton Peele, Lexington Books 1985
Doing Coke: An Ethnography of Cocaine Users and Sellers
Waldorf, Drug Abuse Council 1977
Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge our Misguided Rehab System
Lonny Shavelson, New Press 2001
The Taming of Cocaine: cocaine use in European and American cities
Tom Decorte, VUB University Press 2000
Addiction
D. Marteau, Quay Books 2001
Buying and Selling Drugs in the US
The Gang
FM Thrasher, Uni of Chicago Press 1927
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
P.I. Bourgeois, Cambridge University Press 1995
Dealing Crack: The Social World of Street Corner Dealing
Bruce Jacobs, Northeastern University Press 1999
Disorganized Crime: The Economics of the Visible Hand
Peter Reuter, MIT Press 1983
The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring
Terry Williams, Bloomsbury 1990
Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue (photos taken in Red Hook, Philly and East NY)
Eugene Richards, Aperture 1994
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
Moises Naim, Doubleday 2005
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence and The Moral Life of The Inner City
E. Anderson, Norton 1999
The Introduction of Crack Cocaine and The Rise in Urban Crime Rates
Grogger and Willis, National Bureau of Economic Research 1998
Street Justice: Retaliation in the Criminal Underworld
Bruce Jacobs, Cambridge University Press 2006
Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence
Tom Hayden, New Press 2005
In the Shadow of the White House: Drugs, Death and Redemption on the Streets of the Nation's Capital
M. Tidwell, Prima Publishing 1992
The Culture of Drugs in the Black Community
Nobles, Goddard, Cavil and George, Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture 1987
Gangsta: Merchandising the Rhymes of Violence
R. Ro, St. Martins Press 1996
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood
D. Simon and E. Burns, Broadway 1997
Race, Society and Prisons in the US
Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment
Eds. Mauer and Chesney-Lind, New Press 2004
Punishment and Democracy: Essays on the Prison Industrial Complex
Angela Davis, New York: Pantheon Press forthcoming
The Many Colours of Crime: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity and Crime in America
Eds. Peterson, Krivo and Hagan, NYU Press 2006
Pipe Dream Blues: Racism and the War on Drugs
Clarence Lusane, South End Press 1991
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California
Ruth Gilmore, University of California Press 2006
Race to Incarcerate
Mark Mauer, New Press 2006
Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor
Eds. Wright and Herivel, Routledge 2003
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Davis, Seven Stories Press 2003
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
Andrew Hacker, Scribners 1992
The Undeserving Poor
Michael Katz, Pantheon 1989
Blacks in the White Establishment: A Study of Race and Class in America
Zweigenhaft and Domhoff, Yale University Press 1991
Drug Policy and the Decline of American Cities
Sam Staley, Transaction 1992
Consequences of Growing Up Poor
GJ Duncan and J. Brooks-Gunn, Russell Sage Foundation 1997
Young, Black and Male in America: An Endangered Species
J.T. Gibbs, Auburn House 1988
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Under Class and Public Policy
W.J. Wilson, University Of Chicago Press 1987
The Myth of Black Progress
Alphonso Pinkney, Cambridge University Press 1984
Caste and Class in a Southern Town
John Dollard, New York 1957 ('a sociological Gulliver's Travels')
An American Dilemma
Gunnar Myrdal, New York 1964
Schooling in Capitalist America
Bowles and Gintis, Basic Books 1977
Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men
E. Liebow, Little and Brown 1967
Getting Paid
M. Sullivan, Rutgers University Press 1989
Homeboys: gangs, drugs and prison in the barrios of Los Angeles
Joan Moore, Temple University Press 1978
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence and The Moral Life of The Inner City
E. Anderson, Norton 1999
Crime Control as Industry
Nils Christie, Routledge 1994
Malign Neglect: Race, Crime and Punishment in America
Tonry, Oxford 1995
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the US Criminal Justice System
David Cole, New Press 1999
Manchild in the Promised Land
C. Brown, Macmillan 1965
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
F. Butterfield, Knopf 1995
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
Maya Angelou, London 1987
My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered
Howard Raines, Penguin 1983
Who Needs the Negro?
Sidney Wilhelm, Schenkman 1970
Cocaine in the Caribbean & Central America
Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking in The Caribbean:
the case of Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Guyana
Daurius Figueira, iUniverse 2004
Ruthless: The Global Rise of The Yardies
G. Small, Warner Books 1995
Born Fi Dead: A Journey Through The Jamaican Posse Underworld
Laurie Gunst, Canongate 2003
The Political Economy of Drugs in The Caribbean
I.L.Griffith (ed.), Macmillan 2000
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and The CIA in Central America
Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, University of California Press 1998
Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras and The Crack Cocaine Explosion
Gary Webb, Turnaround 1988
The Politics of Heroin in South East Asia
Alfred McCoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1972
The Global Economy and State Power
(for the chapter by Andreas 'When Policies Collide: Market Reform, Market Prohibition and The Narcotization of The Mexican Economy')
eds. Richard Friman and Peter Andreas, Roman and Littlefield 1999
El Narcotraficante:
Narco-corridos and The Construction of a Cultural Persona on The US-Mexico Border
Mark Cameron Edberg, University of Texas Press 2004
True Tales From Another Mexico
Sam Quinones, University of New Mexico Press 2001
Powderburns
Celerino Castillo III, Mosaic 1994
Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots & Graffiti From La Frontera
ed. Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, John William Byrd, and Bobby Byrd, Cinco Puntos Press 2003
El Zar de la Droga: La Vida de un Narcotraficante Mexicano
Terrence Poppa
Colombia and US Foreign Policy
La Economia Colombiana Tras 25 Anos de Narcotrafico
Ricardo Rocha Garcia, Siglo del Hombre 2000
No Nacimos Pa' Semilla
Alonso Salazar, Planeta 2001
Drogas y Narcotrafico en Colombia
Alonso Salazar, Planeta 2001
Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of US Policy
Youngers and Rosin, Lynne Rienner 2004
US Foreign Policy and The War on Drugs
Cornelius Friesendorf, Routledge 2006
More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs and America's War in Colombia
Robin Kirk, Public Affairs 2003
From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and The Building of The World Economy 1500-2000
eds. Toik, Marichal and Frank, Duke University Press 2006
Beneath The United States: A History of US Policy Towards Latin America
Lars Schoultz, Harvard University Press 1998
Driven by Drugs: US Policy Toward Colombia
Russell Crandell, Lynne Rienner 2002
Political Economy and Illegal Drugs in Colombia
Francisco Thoumi, Lynne Rienner 1995
Loyal Soldiers in The Cocaine Kingdom: Tales of Drugs, Mules and Gunmen
Alfredo Molano, Colombia University Press 2004
The Andes in Focus
Ed. Russell Crandall, Lynne Rienner 2005
Walking Ghosts
Steven Dudley, Routledge 2004
Systems of Violence: Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia
Nazih Richani, State University of New York Press 2001
Latin America After Neo-Liberalism
eds. Hershberg and Rosen, New Press 2006
Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society
Safford and Palacios, Oxford University Press 2002
Colombia: Inside The Labyrinth
Jenny Pearce, LAB Books 1990
Los Jinetes de la Cocaina
Fabio Castillo, Documentos Periodisticos, Bogota 1988
Hoja, Pasta, Polvo y Roca: El Consumo de Los Derivados de La Coca
Aurelio Diaz, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona 1998
Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru
E. Morales, Uni. Of Arizona Press 1989
Colonizacion, Coca y Guerrilla
Jaime Eduardo Jaramillo, Universidad Nacional de Bogota 1986
Entre el Estado y la Guerrilla: Identidad y Ciudadania en El Movimiento de Los Campesinos Cocaleros Del Putumayo
Maria Clemencia Ramirez, Universidad Nacional Bogota 2001
Coca-Cola: Historia, Manejo Politico y Mafia de La Cocaine
Mario Arango & Jorge Child, Dos Mundos Bogota 1986
Narcotrafico: Imperio de La Cocaine
Mario Arango & Jorge Child, Percepcion Medellin 1984
Los Condenados de La Coca, El Manejo Politico de La Droga
Mario Arango, Editorial Arango 1985
Lehder: El Hombre
Jorge Eliecer Orozco, Plaza and Janes 1987
Death Beat: A Colombian Journalist's Life Inside The Cocaine Wars
Maria Jimena Duzan, Harper Collins 1994
Chemical Warfare in Colombia: The Costs of Coca Fumigation
Hugh O'Shaughnessy and Sue Branford, LAB 2005
Rehenes de La Mafia
Edgar Torres and Armando Sarmiento, Bogota: Intermedio Editores 199
Questioning the War on Drugs
Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market
Thomas Szasz, Syracuse University Press 1996
Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers.
Thomas Szasz, Holmes Beach FL: Learning Publications 1985 (1974)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
John Gray, Granta Books 2002
Winning the War on Drugs: To Legislate or Not?
R. Stevenson, Institute for Economic Affairs 1994
Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Places, Times and Vices
Peter Reuter and Robert MacCoun, Cambridge University Press 2001
An Unwinnable War Against Drugs: The Politics of Decriminalization
Eds. J. Matthews, T. Carney, Pluto Press: Sydney 1991
The American Disease: Origins of Narcotics Control
David Musto, Yale University Press 1973
The Drug Legalization Debate
James Inciardi, Sage 1999
Confronting Drug Policy
eds. Ronald Bayer and Gerald Oppenheimer, Cambridge University Press 1993
Against Excess
Mark Kleiman, Basic Books 1992
The Cocaine Crises
D.F. Allen, Plenum 1987
Drug Crazy, How We Got Into This Mess And How We Can Get Out
Mike Gray, Routledge 2003
Why Our Drugs Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It
James Gray, Temple Uni. Press 2001
Between Politics and Reason: The Drug Legalisation Debate
Erich Goode, St. Martins 1997
The Legislation of Morality
Troy Duster, Free Press 1970
Policing and the War on Drugs
Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement
Dorn, Murji and South, Routledge 1992
Drug Policy and The Decline of American Cities
Sam Staley, Transaction 1992
Snow Job: The War Against International Drug Trafficking
Jack Riley, Transaction 1996
Crack and The Evolution of Anti-Drug Policy
S. Belenko, Greenwood Press 1993
The Strength of The Wolf:
The Secret History of America's War on Drugs
Douglas Valentine
DEA: The War Against Drugs
Jessica de Grazia, BBC Books 1991
The Cocaine Wars
Paul Eddy, Century 1988
Without a Badge: Undercover in The World's Deadliest Criminal Organizations
Jerry Speziale with Mark Seal, Arrow 2004
Political and Financial Corruption
Big Deal: Politics of The Illicit Drugs Business
Henman and Lewis, Pluto Press 1985
Drugs Crime and Corruption: Thinking The Unthinkable
Richard Clutterbuck, NYU Press 1995
Chasing Dirty Money: The Fight Against Money Laundering
Peter Reuter and Edwin Truman, Institute for International Economics 2004
The White Labyrinth: Cocaine and Political Power
Renssalaer Lee, Transaction 1989
The Underground Empire: Where Crime and Justice Embrace
James Mills, Doubleday 1996
Drug Trafficking in The Americas
(eds)Bruce Bagley and W.O. Walker, Transaction 1994
The Fix
Michael Massing, University of California Press 2000
Whitewash: Pablo Escobar and The Drug Wars
Simon Strong, Macmillan 1995
Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and The Press
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, 1998
The Business of Drugs
Mary Cooper, Bombay: Popular Prakashan 1993
Drugs and Money: Laundering Latin America's Cocaine Dollars
Robert Grosse, Praegar 2001
The Politics of Organised Crime and The Organised Crime of Politics: A Study in Criminal Power
Alfredo Schulte Bockholt, Lexington 2006
Other Countries' Perspectives
Heroin and Crack Cocaine Markets in Deprived Areas
Andrew Wilson, Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE 2002
Crack Cocaine and Drugs: Crime Careers
Howard Parker, Uni of Manchester 1996
Trafficking Cocaine: Colombian Drug Entrepreneurs in The Netherlands
D. Zaitch, Kluwer Law International,The Hague 2002
Powder Wars: The Supergrass Who Brought Down Britain's Biggest Drug Dealers
(about Paul Grimes, former gangster of Liverpool's Hole in the Wall gang)
Graham Johnson, Mainstream 2005
Community-led Innovation in Addressing the Problems Caused by Crack Cocaine in London
Kate Barker, GLA 2004 (Greater London Alcohol and Drug Alliance)
Miscellaneous
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
E. Goffman, Doubleday 1959
The Consequences of Modernity
Anthony Gidden, Polity Press 1990
The Romantic Ethic and The Spirit of Modern Consumerism
Colin Campbell, Blackwell 1987
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
Marshall Berman, Verso 1983
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Daniel Bell, Harper Torch Books 1976
Europe and The People Without History
E. Wolf, University of California Press 1982
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
T.S. Kuhn, University of Chicago Press 1962
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
James Scott, Yale University Press 1985
Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order
H.West and T. Sanders, Duke University Press 2003
American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History
Tom Lutz, Cornell University Press 1991
The Poetics and Politics of Transgression
Stallybrass and White, Methuen 1986