Protection of Native Races Against Intoxicants & Opium
Author : Wilbur Fisk Crafts
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Alcoholism
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Author : Wilbur Fisk Crafts
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Alcoholism
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Author : Wilbur Fisk Crafts
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Alcoholism
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Author : Wilbur Fisk Crafts
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Missionaries
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Author : Andrew Monteith
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 1479817910
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.
Author : Wilbur Fisk Crafts
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781021963147
This seminal work by Wilbur Fisk Crafts explores the social and public health issues surrounding the use of opium and other intoxicants in colonial societies. Drawing on a wide range of historical and social scientific data, Crafts argues for the need to protect indigenous communities from the damaging effects of these substances. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of colonialism, public health, and the struggle for social justice. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : P. E. Caquet
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2022-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1789145597
Upending all we know about the war on drugs, a history of the anti-narcotics movement’s origins, evolution, and questionable effectiveness. Opium’s Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the “war on drugs.” A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or the United States, and even less with President Nixon, but in China. Two Opium Wars followed by Western attempts to atone for them gave birth to an anti-narcotics order that has come to span the globe. But has the war on drugs succeeded? As opioid deaths and cartel violence run rampant, contestation becomes more vocal, and marijuana is slated for legalization, Opium's Orphans proposes that it is time to go back to the drawing board.
Author : United States. Congress. House
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Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Legislation
ISBN :
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."
Author : Ernest Hurst Cherrington
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Alcohol
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Canals, Interoceanic
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Author : Wilbur Fisk Crafts
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Alcoholism
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