Michael Woodiwiss

Organized Crime and American Power

A History

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Produktbeschreibung

Woodiwiss argues that organized criminal activity has never been a serious threat to established economic and political power structures in the USA but more often a fluid, variable, and open-ended phenomenon that has complemented those structures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 158mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9780802082787
• ISBN-10: 0802082785
• Artikelnr.: 10407836

Autorenporträt

By Michael Woodiwiss

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Organized Crime and the Rise of American Power, 1789-1900
2. Whitewash: Supremacist Crime in the South and Its Loss from the
"Organized Crime" Narratives
3. Organized Crime and Business Power, 1865 to the Present
4. America’s Moral Crusade and the Organization of Illegal Markets, 1789 to
the Present
5. The Dumbing of Organized Crime Discourse, 1835 to the Present
6. White Supremacy to Mass Gang Production: The Political Organization of
Crime in America
7. American Power and the Dumbing of Global Discourse, 1945 to the Present
Notes
Index