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Author:

Marez, Curtis.

Title:

Drug wars : the political economy of narcotics / Curtis Marez.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xii, 347 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Narcotics, Control of--United States.
Narcotics, Control of--Developing countries.
Political corruption--United States.
Political corruption--Developing countries.
United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-340) and index.

Contents:

Part I. Opium. The globe in an opium bowl: the opium wars and British Empire in Asia -- Strange bedfellows: opium and the political economy of sexuality -- Part II. Marijuana. Anarchy in the U.S.A.: the Mexican revolution, labor radicalism, and the criminalization of marijuana -- LAPD, the movie: Hollywood, the police, and the drug war against Mexican immigrants -- La cucaracha in Babylon: Mexican music and Hollywood's sonic war on drugs -- Part III. Cocaine. Cocaine colonialism: Indian rebellion in South America and the history of psychoanalysis -- Drug wars are Indian wars: frontier drug enforcement and the ends of U.S. empire.

ISBN:

9780816640607 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816640602 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816640591 (cloth : alk. paper)
0816640599 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53476960

LCCN:

2003025125

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)