Paul Gootenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Gootenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Gootenberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOOTENBERG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
F rom R ed P rofessor to P rovost
Sharing Yerba Mate
Recent years have been a boon for new English-language books about the revered South American stimulant yerba mate. Historians got not only the suggestive monograph reviewed here, but also Julia Sarreal's complementary Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation. As a veteran Latin American commodity historian, I applaud this recognition, since mate has long been a glaring research gap in the field. What explains mate's newfound celebrity? In part…
F rom R ed P rofessor to P rovost
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Haya de la Torre and the Pursuit of Power in Twentieth-Century Peru and Latin America
Recent global political trends are inevitably spurring reappraisals of classic twentieth-century Latin American “populist” politics and politicians—such as Peru's Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (1895–1979) and his Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) party. Long shrouded by partisan polemics, the enigmas of clandestine politics and exile, and a cultivated “cult of personality,” Haya is approached by Iñigo García-Bryce as a multiple histo…
Guaraná
Imagine an Indigenous Amazonian stimulant plant, colonized, classified, and coveted by Western medicine by the nineteenth century, added into an energizing secret-formula soda fountain drink, which then booms in the industrial age as an iconic “national” beverage of mass consumption? The story of the Andean coca leaf, Coca-Cola, and US consumer culture? Nope, it's the lesser-known saga of Amazonian guaraná in the rise of the Brazilian energy drin…
The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History
Drugs and their illicit use have long fascinated writers and the reading public. Informed by new interdisciplinary perspectives, a growing number of academically trained historians are now approaching drugs as a fresh topic for serious research. This OUP Handbook of Global Drug History is the first major attempt by historians of drugs to take stock of the recent progress and directions of this academic field, utilizing both a global scope and lon…
Chicken or eggs
Crack
This book is the first real synthesis of the “crack era” in U.S. drug history. It is framed by thoughtful analysis, lucid writing, and good use of mostly ethnographic and sociological scholarship. David Farber's thesis may not seem that startling to experts. From the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, the devastating swath that crack cocaine slashed through predominantly African American urban neighborhoods signaled the dark underside of Ronald Reagan–era e…
Cocaine in Chains
The Rarified Air of the Modern
Willie Hiatt’s book engages a fascinating topic: Peru’s encounter with the imported technology of flight during the first half of the twentieth century. Besides many dramatic narratives and anecdotes, for Hiatt modern aviation (in a nation notoriously fragmented by both the Andean mountains and its deep postcolonial ethnic and social divides) opens a window into complex questions of Peruvian relationships with modern technology and their implicat…
Substance and Seduction
This edited volume, written by historical anthropologists, archaeologists, and not a few historians, makes a wonderful addition to the growing literature on commodities, food, and drugs in Latin American history. In some sense, these topics are all children of Sidney W. Mintz's field-making Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985). While historians, a lot of them “recovering” economic historians, tend to focus on what Mint…
The Andean Wonder Drug
Drawing on Atlantic history, the history of science, and commodity studies, this book manages to make a strong original contribution to scholarship on a topic, medicinal cinchona (quina in botanical form), that has drawn its share of general writings over the years. The study's primary concerns, aside from the early Amazonian bark antidote for malarial fevers, are the intersecting “networks” or “politics” of knowledge that swirled around cinchona…
Bruno
This is not a book of history but an outstanding ethnography that may stir up historical thinking. What if—we might ask our own motley archival sources—we were privy to our ideal informant from the past firsthand, a subaltern at that, and able to craft from that an empathetic experiential account beyond just biographical testimony? This is what Robert Gay, a sociologist of Brazil, has successfully done in his extended conversations with “Bruno”—a…
Suzanna Reiss.We Sell Drugs
The history of illicit drugs, once an amateur medical or muckraker field, is now attracting keener interest and sophistication from trained archival historians. Suzanna Reiss revisits the American connection to cocaine and Andean coca leaf during the early Cold War as emblematic of a larger, more telling story. Focused on coca's diverse commodity circuits between the 1940s and 1960s, Reiss argues that the overseas “war on drugs,” usually dated to…
Toward a New Drug History of Latin America
This introduction brings the issue of Latin American drug trades and cultures into conversation with the region's historiography. Illicit drugs are now notoriously associated with Latin America and represent untold billions in exports, generating over the last three decades tremendous violence, instability, and public controversy. Yet historians are just starting to seriously research the topic. Psychoactive drugs, broadly conceived, have been ce…
Cocaïne andine
Dans cette étude novatrice et solidement documentée, Paul Gootenberg retrace l’essor irrésistible de l’un des produits d’exportation les plus fascinants – et désormais illégal – de l’Amérique latine : la cocaïne, ainsi que celui de la plante andine dont elle dérive, la coca. Chapitre méconnu mais emblématique de la globalisation, cette lecture est indispensable pour comprendre l’épidémie de cocaïne des années 1980 et l’interminable guerre contre …
Peruvian Cocaine and the Boomerang of History
"Peruvian Cocaine and the Boomerang of History." NACLA Report on the Americas, 47(2), pp. 48–49 Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul GootenbergPaul Gootenberg teaches History & Sociology at Stony Brook University and is author of Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug (UNC Press, 2009)
The Allure of Labor
Book Review| March 01 2013 The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State. Drinot, Paulo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011xi + 310 pp., $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Paul Gootenberg Paul Gootenberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (1): 148–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1899204 Cite Icon Cite …
Buscando Leviatanes? Las cambiantes perspectivas sobre el Estado liberal y el desarrollo en la historia peruana
Este ensayo examina las concepciones cambiantes del Estado y el desarrollo dentro de los recientes materiales de la historiografía peruana. Las amplias interpretaciones de una dependencia estructural de las décadas de 1970 y 1980 dieron paso a un «giro político» más difuso y creativo durante la de 1990 y después. Estas cambiantes ideas históricas, que todavía no se logran sintetizar del todo, se relacionan con diferentes concepciones globales y f…
Fishing for Leviathans? Shifting Views on the Liberal State and Development in Peruvian History
This essay examines the shifting conceptions of the state and development through recent waves of Peruvian historiography. The broad structuralist-dependency interpretations of the 1970s and 1980s gave way to a more diffuse and creative 'political turn' during and after the 1990s. These changing historical ideas, which still defy synthesis, relate to distinctive global conceptions and phases of economic liberalism, the changing perceived role of …
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective James Mahoney New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 xvii, 400 pp. (ISBN 9780521116343) In reviewing this ne
Cocaine's Long March North, 1900-2010
This essay charts the entanglements and "blowback" effects of U.S. policy toward Latin American drug exports over the last century as the backdrop to today's cascading drug violence in northern Mexico. The history of cocaine reveals a series of major geopolitical shifts (closely related to U.S. interdictionist drug war policies) that bring drug commodity chains, illicit trafficking centers, and conflicts, over the long run, closer to the United S…
Indelible Inequalities in Latin America
Since the earliest years of European colonialism, Latin America has been a region of seemingly intractable inequalities, marked by a stark divide between the haves and the have-nots. This collection illuminates the diverse processes that have combined to produce and reproduce inequalities in Latin America, as well as some of the implications of those processes for North Americans. Anthropologists, cultural critics, historians, and political scien…
Blowback
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul GootenbergPaul Gootenberg teaches history at Stony Brook University in New York. He is the author of Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug (University of North Carolina Press,2008)
Talking About the Flow
Talking About the Flow:Drugs, Borders, and the Discourse of Drug Control Paul Gootenberg (bio) This essay explores the relationships between illicit drug flows (my current area of historical research) and state borders. The larger theme, for objects-in-motion, is how statist languages of "control" underlie their construction and maintenance as illicit and criminalized flows. Students of drug trafficking can make public discourses about drugs a us…
Toward a New Drug History of Latin America
This introduction brings the issue of Latin American drug trades and cultures into conversation with the region's historiography. Illicit drugs are now notoriously associated with Latin America and represent untold billions in exports, generating over the last three decades tremendous violence, instability, and public controversy. Yet historians are just starting to seriously research the topic. Psychoactive drugs, broadly conceived, have been ce…
Talking About the Flow
Talking About the Flow:Drugs, Borders, and the Discourse of Drug Control Paul Gootenberg (bio) This essay explores the relationships between illicit drug flows (my current area of historical research) and state borders. The larger theme, for objects-in-motion, is how statist languages of "control" underlie their construction and maintenance as illicit and criminalized flows. Students of drug trafficking can make public discourses about drugs a us…
The Social Origins of Protectionism and Free Trade in Nineteenth-Century Lima
Nineteenth-century Peru is customarily taken as a hyperbolic example of how the triumph of economic liberalism in Latin America hindered prospects for sustained economic development. While historians now agree that guano-age liberalism triggered adverse economic and social consequences, the roots of Peruvian free trade policy remain shrouded in mystery. Most recently, dependency writers elevated free trade into a major component of their posited …
The “Pre-Colombian” Era of Drug Trafficking in the Americas
Before anyone heard of Colombian narcotraficantes , a new class of international cocaine traffickers was born between 1947 and 1964, led by little-known Peruvians, Bolivians, Chileans, Cubans, Mexicans, Brazilians, and Argentines. These men—and often daring young women—anxiously pursued by U.S. drug agents, pioneered the business of illicit cocaine, a drug whose small-scale production in the Andes remained legal and above board until the late 194…
Carneros y Chuño
A MONG other legacies, nineteenth-century Peru remains an example of statistical dark ages. The Peruvian state was essentially prestatistical; until recently, it lacked the need and capacity for systematic collection of economic, social, and demographic indicators on so nominally a governed people. The challenge of unearthing and preparing usable data thus falls to modern students of Peru. In the past decade, historians have managed to create fro…
Cocaine's Long March North, 1900-2010
This essay charts the entanglements and "blowback" effects of U.S. policy toward Latin American drug exports over the last century as the backdrop to today's cascading drug violence in northern Mexico. The history of cocaine reveals a series of major geopolitical shifts (closely related to U.S. interdictionist drug war policies) that bring drug commodity chains, illicit trafficking centers, and conflicts, over the long run, closer to the United S…
Scholars on Drugs
Between Coca and Cocaine
Cocaine has a long and mostly forgotten history, which more often than not over the past century has revolved around relationships between the United States and the Andean republic of Peru.1 This essay examines that U.S.-Peruvian axis, through three long historical arcs or processes that preceded— and in some sense inform—the hemispheric “drug wars” of the past twenty years. For each stage, I will focus on the changing U.S. influences, signals, o…
Order[s] and Progress in Developmental Discourse
Postcolonial Latin America is generally read as incapable of spawning genuine developmental or national projects - in part, owing to controlling élites' obsessions with social order. By way of contrast, in discussing Peru's mid-19th century age of guano this article reveals a genealogy of mounting élite concerns with diversifying, inclusive development. It was shifting social and national anxieties of liberal thinkers that produced this paradoxic…
The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History
Drugs and their illicit use have long fascinated writers and the reading public. Informed by new interdisciplinary perspectives, a growing number of academically trained historians are now approaching drugs as a fresh topic for serious research. This OUP Handbook of Global Drug History is the first major attempt by historians of drugs to take stock of the recent progress and directions of this academic field, utilizing both a global scope and lon…
Chicken or eggs
Substance and Seduction
This edited volume, written by historical anthropologists, archaeologists, and not a few historians, makes a wonderful addition to the growing literature on commodities, food, and drugs in Latin American history. In some sense, these topics are all children of Sidney W. Mintz's field-making Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985). While historians, a lot of them “recovering” economic historians, tend to focus on what Mint…
The Andean Wonder Drug
Drawing on Atlantic history, the history of science, and commodity studies, this book manages to make a strong original contribution to scholarship on a topic, medicinal cinchona (quina in botanical form), that has drawn its share of general writings over the years. The study's primary concerns, aside from the early Amazonian bark antidote for malarial fevers, are the intersecting “networks” or “politics” of knowledge that swirled around cinchona…
A Forgotten Case of 'Scientific Excellence on the Periphery
In recent years, Latin American history has been awash in an exciting wave of scholarship on the history of science and medicine. Historians are exploring Latin American reactions to foreign medical, sanitary and scientific missions; the creation of national research institutions; the impact of epidemics on conceptions of urban space, politics and social control; the role of indigenous and folk cures in modern public health campaigns; and the rel…
Secret Ingredients
This article explores the hidden politics around so-called 'Merchandise No. 5', a secret formula extract of Peruvian coca-leaf used in the American beverage Coca-Cola since the early twentieth century. It analyses the peculiar early political economy of US cocaine control which by the 1920s lent the Coca-Cola Company (and its associate, Maywood Chemical Co. of New Jersey) special roles in drug diplomacy with Peru. It then follows the paradoxical …
North-South
The thesis of this article, following that venerable geopolitical theory of Montesquieu, is deceptively simple. In post-independence Peru, the fundamental faultline of regional conflict was a north-south one, that of thelimeñonorth versus thearequipeñosouthern coast. The sources of north-south differentiation were many: distinctive institutional legacies of colonialism, the centrifugal force of 1820s balkanisation, contrasting new forms of overse…
Fishing for Leviathans? Shifting Views on the Liberal State and Development in Peruvian History
This essay examines the shifting conceptions of the state and development through recent waves of Peruvian historiography. The broad structuralist-dependency interpretations of the 1970s and 1980s gave way to a more diffuse and creative 'political turn' during and after the 1990s. These changing historical ideas, which still defy synthesis, relate to distinctive global conceptions and phases of economic liberalism, the changing perceived role of …
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective James Mahoney New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 xvii, 400 pp. (ISBN 9780521116343) In reviewing this ne
Drugs, Labor and Colonial Expansion
Between Silver and Guano. Commercial Policy and the State in Postindependence Peru
The Social Origins of Protectionism and Free Trade in Nineteenth-Century Lima
Nineteenth-century Peru is customarily taken as a hyperbolic example of how the triumph of economic liberalism in Latin America hindered prospects for sustained economic development. While historians now agree that guano-age liberalism triggered adverse economic and social consequences, the roots of Peruvian free trade policy remain shrouded in mystery. Most recently, dependency writers elevated free trade into a major component of their posited …
Los origenes sociales del proteccionismo y libre comercio en Lima del siglo XIX
No presenta resumen
Between Silver and Guano
Carneros y Chuño
A MONG other legacies, nineteenth-century Peru remains an example of statistical dark ages. The Peruvian state was essentially prestatistical; until recently, it lacked the need and capacity for systematic collection of economic, social, and demographic indicators on so nominally a governed people. The challenge of unearthing and preparing usable data thus falls to modern students of Peru. In the past decade, historians have managed to create fro…
A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America
Essays on the Price History of Eighteenth-Century Latin America
Essays on the Price History of Eighteenth-Century Latin America
Population and Ethnicity in Early Republican Peru
All numbers on the makeup of Peru's republican population are wrong, the one point on which historians can agree. Peruvian governments had neither the capacity nor the will to mount thorough surveys of their scattered and elusive Andean subjects. Between the late viceregal census of 1791 (reporting a population of 1,076,000) and the first modern effort of 1876 (yielding a count of 2,699,000) lies a century of demographic no man's land, despite pa…
Between Silver and Guano. Commercial Policy and the State in Postindependence Peru
Between Silver and Guano
North-South
The thesis of this article, following that venerable geopolitical theory of Montesquieu, is deceptively simple. In post-independence Peru, the fundamental faultline of regional conflict was a north-south one, that of thelimeñonorth versus thearequipeñosouthern coast. The sources of north-south differentiation were many: distinctive institutional legacies of colonialism, the centrifugal force of 1820s balkanisation, contrasting new forms of overse…
Political and Economic Liberalization in Mexico
The Politics of Economic Liberalisation in Mexico, R. Roett. Part 1 The Relationship Between Economic and Political Liberalisation: Political Origins and Effects of Economic Reform in Mexico, L. Rubio Political Liberalisation - the Ultimate Key to Economic Modernisation in Mexico?, R.A. Camp. Part 2 Economic and Political Consequences of Political Liberalisation: Power, Value, and Distribution in a North American Free Trade Agreement, C.W. Reynol…
Order[s] and Progress in Developmental Discourse
Postcolonial Latin America is generally read as incapable of spawning genuine developmental or national projects - in part, owing to controlling élites' obsessions with social order. By way of contrast, in discussing Peru's mid-19th century age of guano this article reveals a genealogy of mounting élite concerns with diversifying, inclusive development. It was shifting social and national anxieties of liberal thinkers that produced this paradoxic…
Imagining Development
Retelling the saga of Peru's nineteenth-century age of guano, Paul Gootenberg provides the first book in English to explore the historical genealogy of Latin America's postcolonial economic thought. He scrutinizes the mentalities, ideas, and visions that led the country down an ill-fated path of export liberalism. The surprising diversity, vitality, and subtlety of Peruvian economic thinking challenges images of Latin American liberalism as a bor…
On salamanders, pyramids, and mexico's ‘ Growth‐without‐Change’
The Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850
Imagining Development
Neoliberalism, Transnationalization, and Rural Poverty
Introduction - structural adjustment, neoliberalism and the Mexican countryside on audacity and social polarization - an assessment of rural policy under Salinas social life and the practices of power - the limits of neocardenismo and the limits of the PRI the transnationalization of regional societies - capital, class and international migration a rush through the closing door? - the impact of Simpson-Rodino on two rural communities the family u…
The Coca Boom and Rural Social Change in Bolivia
Daniel Nugent (1954-1997)
Short notices
Alain Boureau, The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage (1998), ix + 300 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, $55.00/£43.95, paperback $19.00/£15.25). Rosemary Sweet, The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth Century England (1997), ix + 356 (Oxford University Press, New York, £45.00/$90.00). Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore (eds), Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U…
Latin America
Cocaine
Journal Article Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884–1920. By Joseph F. Spillane. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii, 214 pp. $39.95 and Cocaine: Global Histories. Ed. by Paul Gootenberg. New York: Routledge, 1999. xvi, 213 pp. Cloth, $90.00 Get access Philip Jenkins Philip Jenkins Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Tales of Two Cities
Perhaps the University of Texas Press bet that Tales of Two Cities would prove (to unknowing consumers) an instant Victorian classic, boosting flagging sales on Latin American lists. Not likely. This sales gimmick obscures the fact that this an interesting book on its own terms. Camilla Townsend’s work excels (much like Dickens) in its larger narrative strategies and in the end makes a successful stab at a much-talked about but still rarely done …
Between Coca and Cocaine
Cocaine has a long and mostly forgotten history, which more often than not over the past century has revolved around relationships between the United States and the Andean republic of Peru.1 This essay examines that U.S.-Peruvian axis, through three long historical arcs or processes that preceded— and in some sense inform—the hemispheric “drug wars” of the past twenty years. For each stage, I will focus on the changing U.S. influences, signals, o…
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