Author: Wilbur Fisk Crafts
Publisher:
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Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Protection of Native Races Against Intoxicants & Opium
Author: Wilbur Fisk Crafts
Publisher:
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Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs
Author: Andrew Monteith
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479817910
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Recovers the religious origins of the War on Drugs Many people view the War on Drugs as a contemporary phenomenon invented by the Nixon administration. But as this new book shows, the conflict actually began more than a century before, when American Protestants began the temperance movement and linked drug use with immorality. Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs argues that this early drug war was deeply rooted in Christian impulses. While many scholars understand Prohibition to have been a Protestant undertaking, it is considerably less common to consider the War on Drugs this way, in part because racism has understandably been the focal point of discussions of the drug war. Antidrug activists expressed—and still do express--blatant white supremacist and nativist motives. Yet this book argues that that racism was intertwined with religious impulses. Reformers pursued the “civilizing mission,” a wide-ranging project that sought to protect “child races” from harmful influences while remodeling their cultures to look like Europe and the United States. Most reformers saw Christianity as essential to civilization and missionaries felt that banning drugs would encourage religious conversion and progress. This compelling work of scholarship radically reshapes our understanding of one of the longest and most damaging conflicts in modern American history, making the case that we cannot understand the War on Drugs unless we understand its religious origins.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479817910
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Recovers the religious origins of the War on Drugs Many people view the War on Drugs as a contemporary phenomenon invented by the Nixon administration. But as this new book shows, the conflict actually began more than a century before, when American Protestants began the temperance movement and linked drug use with immorality. Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs argues that this early drug war was deeply rooted in Christian impulses. While many scholars understand Prohibition to have been a Protestant undertaking, it is considerably less common to consider the War on Drugs this way, in part because racism has understandably been the focal point of discussions of the drug war. Antidrug activists expressed—and still do express--blatant white supremacist and nativist motives. Yet this book argues that that racism was intertwined with religious impulses. Reformers pursued the “civilizing mission,” a wide-ranging project that sought to protect “child races” from harmful influences while remodeling their cultures to look like Europe and the United States. Most reformers saw Christianity as essential to civilization and missionaries felt that banning drugs would encourage religious conversion and progress. This compelling work of scholarship radically reshapes our understanding of one of the longest and most damaging conflicts in modern American history, making the case that we cannot understand the War on Drugs unless we understand its religious origins.
Intoxicants and Opium in All Lands and Times
Author: Wilbur Fisk Crafts
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Publisher:
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents Relating to the Philippine Islands
Author:
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
Book Description
Drugs and Society
Author: Jefferson M. Fish
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742542457
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The focus of this edited collection is a thoughtful multidisciplinary presentation of past and present U.S. drug policies and whether they are winning the so-called war on drugs (they aren't!). For the great majority of ills ascribed to "drugs" are actually caused by the black market created by drug prohibition; the more successful the war on drugs is in making the drug trade a dangerous business, the greater are the profits from increased prices, and hence the greater the incidence of disease, corruption, social disorder, and death. Drugs and Society provides individuals with the information they need to construct an alternative policy.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742542457
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The focus of this edited collection is a thoughtful multidisciplinary presentation of past and present U.S. drug policies and whether they are winning the so-called war on drugs (they aren't!). For the great majority of ills ascribed to "drugs" are actually caused by the black market created by drug prohibition; the more successful the war on drugs is in making the drug trade a dangerous business, the greater are the profits from increased prices, and hence the greater the incidence of disease, corruption, social disorder, and death. Drugs and Society provides individuals with the information they need to construct an alternative policy.
Intoxicants & Opium in All Lands and Times
Author: Wilbur Fisk Crafts
Publisher:
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Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Missionary Review of the World
Author:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
General History of Drugs Volume 3 Part 2
Author: Antonio Escohotado
Publisher: Graffiti Militante
ISBN: 1735787884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Drugs, History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, morphine, opium, cocaine, ether, cannabis, De Quincey, Gautier, Malraux.
Publisher: Graffiti Militante
ISBN: 1735787884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Drugs, History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, morphine, opium, cocaine, ether, cannabis, De Quincey, Gautier, Malraux.