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Searching for Significance among Drug Lords and Death Squads: The Covert Netherworld as Invisible Incubator for Illicit Commerce

Autor: Alfred W. McCoy

Publikováno v: Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 9-22 (2019)

In a search for appropriate theory, this essay inserts drug trafficking, the world’s largest illicit economic activity, within a wider analytical frame called the ‘covert netherworld.’ Through the convergence of three factors—covert operation

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/02de3a8e2f354e64bb181dbe7b25f4bf

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To Govern the Globe : World Orders and Catastrophic Change

Autor: Alfred W. McCoy

In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless su

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Beer of Broadway Fame : The Piel Family and Their Brooklyn Brewery

Autor: Alfred W. McCoy

Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional categoryFor more than a century, New York City was the brewing capital of America, with more breweries producing more beer than any other city, including Milwaukee and St. L

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Torture and Impunity : The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation

Autor: Alfred W. McCoy

Many Americans have condemned the “enhanced interrogation” techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this

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Colonial Crucible : Empire in the Making of the Modern American State

Autor: Alfred W. McCoy, Francisco A. Scarano

At the end of the nineteenth century the United States swiftly occupied a string of small islands dotting the Caribbean and Western Pacific, from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Hawaii and the Philippines. Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Moder

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Policing America’s Empire : The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State

Autor: Alfred W. McCoy

At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to today's war in Iraq. Armed with cutting-edge technology from America's first information

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