Smack : : Heroin and the American City /

Smack : : Heroin and the American City / / Eric C. Schneider.

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Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs.During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital-o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
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Schneider, Eric C.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2009
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Politics and Culture in Modern America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 14 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: REQUIEM FOR THE CITY
  • CHAPTER ONE. New York and the Global Market
  • CHAPTER TWO. Jazz Joints and Junk
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Plague
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Panic over Adolescent Heroin Use
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Ethnicity and the Market
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Rising Tide
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Dealing with Dope
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Heroin Suburbanizes
  • CHAPTER NINE. The War and the War at Home
  • CHAPTER TEN. From the Golden Spike to the Glass Pipe
  • CONCLUSION. Heroin Markets Redux
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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