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Book Title
Dope Girls: Birth of the British Drug Underground: The Birth of t
Genre
Social & cultural history
ISBN
9781862074064
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
Dope Girls: Birth of the British Drug Underground
Author
Marek Kohn
Publisher
Granta Books
Subject
History, Healthcare System
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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A drug panic. Murder. Terrifying and mysterious black and Chinese immigrants. Dope Kings. Jazz. War. An actress dead of an overdose. Dope Girls is about the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which until then had been available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death in 1918, in the last furious stages of the World War, of Bille Carleton, a West End musical actress. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor, and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. They were identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace. Around them in the streets off Shaftesbury Avenue and in Chinatown there swirled a raffish group of seedy and rebellious hedonists. Britain was horrified and fascinated. The drug problem was born, amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail. The establishment saw the episode as a threat to white womanhood, menaced by the cocktail of sex and drugs on offer from racial inferiors. Dope Girls remains a highly topical and instructive book.

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Granta Books
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9781862074064
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Author
Marek Kohn
Publication Name
Dope Girls: Birth of the British Drug Underground
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History, Healthcare System
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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Marek Kohn
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United Kingdom

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    It’s a good read, it explores various angles of drug use amongst people from many aspects of society. Who, when, sometimes where and alludes to why.

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