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020			_a9781139012829 (ebook)
020			_z9781107013902 (hardback)
020			_z9781107697003 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aHV5825 _b.F79 2013
082	0	0	_a363.450973/0904 _223
100	1		_aFrydl, Kathleen J., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973 / _cKathleen J. Frydl.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (458 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThe 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.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107013902
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139012829
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37543 _d37543