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.<BR /><BR /><I>We Sell Drugs</I> is a study grounded in the transnational geography and political economy of the...
In the decades after the landmark <I>Brown v. Board of Education</I> Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation’s most controversial civil rights issues. <I>Why Busing Failed</I> is the first book to examine the pitched battles over busing on a national scale, focusing on cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Michigan. This groundbreaking book shows how school...
