PAUL GOOTENBERG, Professor of History at Stony Brook University, and noted author of ANDEAN COCAINE: THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL DRUG (UNC Press, 2009) will discuss a dramatic chapter in the transnational history of global flows: the invention of illicit cocaine. The sudden emergence of shifting drug trafficking centers and innovating trafficker diasporas from South America to the United States, from 1947- 1973, followed a surprising logic of the U.S.-exported Cold War and repressive drug policies–leaving, in its wake, one of the largest and most notorious commodity booms of world history.

Thursday, October 8th @ 6pm
80 Fifth Avenue, Fifth Floor, Room 529

Presented by History at Eugene Lang College, the Committee on Historical Studies at New School for Social Research, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.