Author: Joseph A. Gagliano

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0816547599

The first book to provide a historical overview of coca. In tracing the arguments of the participants in the coca debates during the last four centuries, it surveys the role of the leaf in Peru's sociopolitical history, focusing on coca usage as a source of controversy for the policy makers among the coastal elites who have dominated Peruvian politics and economics since the Spanish conquest.