We sell drugs : the alchemy of U.S. empire / Suzanna Reiss.
2014
HV5825 .R434 2014eb
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Title
We sell drugs : the alchemy of U.S. empire / Suzanna Reiss.
Author
Reiss, Suzanna, author.
ISBN
9780520959026 (electronic book)
9780520280779
9780520280786
9780520280779
9780520280786
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
HV5825 .R434 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
382/.4561510973
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.
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Includes index.
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Series
American crossroads ; 39.
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Table of 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.
"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.