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Author Reiss, Suzanna.

Title We sell drugs : the alchemy of US empire / Suzanna Reiss.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  382.456151 R278w 2014    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Description xii, 308 pages ; illustrations : 24 cm.
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Series American crossroads ; 39
American crossroads ; 39.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Subject Drug control -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
Drug abuse -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
Balance of power.
United States -- Politics and government.
ISBN 9780520280779 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520280776 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520280786 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520280784 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520959026 (ebook)
Standard No. 40023903465

 
    
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