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Organized crime and American power : a history / Michael Woodiwiss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodiwiss, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organized crime--United States.
- Organized crime.
- History.
- United States.
- Organized crime--United States--Prevention--History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 468 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Old world antecedents and the rise of American power
- Whitewash: racism, xenophobia, and the origins of 'organized crime' in the United States
- Organized crime and corporate power, 1865-1950
- America's moral crusade and the organization of illegal markets, 1789-1950
- Organized crime and the dumbing of American discourse, 1920 to the present
- Industrial and corporate racketeering, 1950 to the present
- Drugs: private enterprise and government bounty
- American power and the dumbing of global discourse.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802047009
- 0802082785
- OCLC:
- 46856533
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