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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: drug wars in America, 1940-1973
  name:
    name part: Frydl, Kathleen.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973 argues that the US government has clung to its militant drug war, despite its obvious failures, because effective control of illicit traffic and consumption were never the critical factors motivating its adoption in the first place. Instead, Kathleen J. Frydl shows that the shift from regulating illicit drugs through taxes and tariffs to criminalizing the drug trade developed from, and was marked by, other dilemmas of governance in an age of vastly expanding state power. Most believe the 'drug war' was inaugurated by President Richard Nixon's declaration of a war on drugs in 1971, but in fact his announcement heralded changes that had taken place in the two decades prior. Frydl examines this critical interval of time between regulation and prohibition, demonstrating that the war on drugs advanced certain state agendas, such as policing inner cities or exercising power abroad.
  table of contents: Trade in war -- Presumptions and pretense : international trade in narcotics -- A society which requires some sort of sedation : domestic drug consumption, circulation, and perception -- Review and reform : the Kennedy Commission -- Police and clinics : enforcement and treatment in the city, 1960-1973 -- The cost of denial : Vietnam and the global diversity of the drug trade.
  note: Kathleen J. Frydl.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Drug abuse
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Drug abuse
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Drug control
    geographic: United States
  classification: HV5825 .F79 2013
  classification: 363.450973/0904
  identifier: 9781107013902 (hardback)
  identifier: 1107013909 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781107697003 (pbk.)
  identifier: 110769700X (pbk.)
  identifier: 2012025580
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120625
    record change date: 20151205115433.0
    record identifier: in00003285849