Organized crime and American power
Subtitle: a history
By: Michael Woodiwiss.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
Subjects: Organized crime -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Organized crime -- United States -- Prevention -- History.; Crime organisé -- États-Unis.; Crime organisé -- États-Unis -- Prévention -- Histoire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Old world antecedents and the rise of American power; title: Whitewash: racism, xenophobia, and the origins of 'organized crime' in the United States; title: Organized crime and corporate power, 1865-1950; title: America's moral crusade and the organization of illegal markets, 1789-1950; title: Organized crime and the dumbing of American discourse, 1920 to the present; title: Industrial and corporate racketeering, 1950 to the present; title: Drugs: private enterprise and government bounty; title: American power and the dumbing of global discourse.