| Description |
1 online resource (358 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
1. Writing twentieth-century Mexico's drug histories / Wil G. Pansters and Benjamin T. Smith -- Part I. The Emerging Prohibition Regime: Policies, Policing, and Popular Vices. 2. "Pressure-response" and the origins of Mexican drug prohibition, 1912-1920 : A reassessment / Isaac Campos -- 3. Popular vices and revolutionary restrictions: Drugs and Mexican society, 1910-1920 / Ricardo Perez Montfort -- 4. Drugs, control, and corruption : The antinarcotics police in Mexico City, 1920-1947 / Nidia A. Olvera Hernandez -- Part II. Drug Trafficking, Social Relations, Political Protection, and Law Enforcement during the Mexican Miracle. 5. La Nacha, the godmother of border trafficking : Transnational drugs and gendered power in Ciudad Juarez, 1920-1960 / Elaine Carey -- 6. Highs and lows : Drug trafficking in Baja California, 1930-1960 / Benjamin T. Smith and Wil G. Pansters -- 7. Policing the drug trade : U.S. narcotic agents in Mexico, 1936-1963 / Carlos A. Perez Ricart -- 8. "Rayando la Bola, Cortando la Rama" : The production of opium and marijuana in Sinaloa, 1940-ca. 1975 / Juan Antonio Fernandez Velazquez -- 9. With a little help from his friends : Juan N. Guerra, smuggling, and drug trafficking in Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, 1940s-1950s / Carlos Antonio Flores Perez -- Part III. Drug Trafficking, the Drug War, the Dirty War, and the Unintended Consequences. 10. Caciques, traffickers, and soldiers : Drug-trafficking in Cardenista Territory of Michoacan, 1960-1970 / Salvador Maldonado Aranda -- 11. The War on Drugs, counterinsurgency, and the state of siege in the Golden Triangle, 1977-1982 / Adela Cedillo -- 12. Grupo Sangre : Drugs, squads, and the dirty war origins of Mexico's drug wars / Alexander Avina -- 13. Heroin, the Herreras, and the "Chicago connection" / Nathaniel Morris -- Part IV. Conclusions. 14. Drugs, crime, and violence in modern Mexico / Alan Knight |
| Summary |
"This work brings together a new generation of drug historians and new historical sources to uncover the history of the drug trade and its regulations. While the US and Mexican governments developed anti-drug discourses and policies, which criminalized both high-profile traffickers and small-time addicts, these authorities also employed the criminals and cash connected to the drug trade to pursue more pressing political concerns. The politics, socioeconomic relations, and criminal justice system of modern Mexico have been shaped by these public and covert policies as well as by subnational histories of drug production and trafficking. The essays in this study explore this complicated narrative and provide insight into Mexico's history and the wider contemporary global drug trade."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Wil G. Pansters is a professor of social and political anthropology of Latin America at Utrecht University. Benjamin T. Smith is a professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Drug traffic -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
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Drug dealers -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
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Drug dealers
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Drug traffic
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780826363596 |
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0826363598 |
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