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We sell drugs : the alchemy of US empire / Suzanna Reiss.
LIBRA HV5825 .R434 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reiss, Suzanna, author.
- Series:
- American crossroads
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug control--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Drug control.
- Drug abuse--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Drug abuse.
- Pharmaceutical industry--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Balance of power.
- History.
- Drug abuse--Political aspects.
- Drug control--Political aspects.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 308 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- "This history of US-led international drug control provides new perspectives on the economic, ideological, and political foundations of a Cold War American empire. US officials assumed the helm of international drug control after World War II at a moment of unprecedented geopolitical influence embodied in the growing economic clout of its pharmaceutical industry."--back cover.
- Contents:
- "The drug arsenal of the civilized world": WWII and the origins of US-led international drug control
- "Resources for freedom": American drug commodities in the postwar world
- Raw materialism: exporting drug control to the Andes
- The alchemy of empire: drugs and development in the Americas
- The chemical cold war: drugs and policing in the new world order.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520280779
- 0520280776
- 9780520280786
- 0520280784
- OCLC:
- 876262302
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