Coca and the Victorians

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Coca and the Victorians is written by Kim Embrey and published by transcript Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3839444195 (ISBN 10) and 9783839444191 (ISBN 13).

The South American coca plant was established in 19th-century Britain as a medical product before it became a globally restricted drug. Drawing on botanical, economic, pharmaceutical, social, and political perspectives, Kim Embrey analyses how the use and perception of coca changed as it was transferred to Europe. In a process of “cultural dissimilation”, coca was not simply adopted, but embedded into new medical, social, and scientific contexts. The study shows how a plant from the Andes was repositioned in British modernity.