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Bezig met laden... Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Undergrounddoor Marek Kohn
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As entertaining as it is enlightening,Dope Girlsvividly records the scandals and moral panics in Britain that followed the end of the First World War, as drug use—especially of morphine and cocaine—was transformed into a national menace. The cast of characters includes Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, whose highly publicized death from an overdose in 1918 fueled public anxiety; Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant propriet∨ and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica—identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace. Around them swirled a raffish group of seedy and rebellious hedonists. Britain was horrified and enthralled—the drug problem was born, amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail. A cult classic in Britain,Dope Girlsremains both timely and instructive. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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![]() GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)362.290941Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Social problems of & services to groups of people Mentally ill Substance abuse Biography; History By Place EuropeLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:![]()
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