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  • The Politics of Heroin

    CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

    by Alfred w. McCoy ...
    The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global perspective, this groundbreaking study details the mechanics of drug trafficking in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South and Central America. New ... Read more

    $13.12 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cold War on Five Continents

    A Global History of Empire and Espionage

    by Alfred W. McCoy ...
    A provocative analysis of the deadly Cold War conflicts that devastated countries and communities far from Moscow and WashingtonTransforming battlegrounds in Africa, Asia, and Latin America into veritable hellscapes, the surrogate wars of the Cold War era left behind a legacy of collective trauma and social conflict that have persisted into the present. In this ambitious work, Alfred W. McCoy uses ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • In the Shadows of the American Century

    The Rise and Decline of US Global Power

    by Alfred W. McCoy ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    The award-winning historian delivers a "brilliant and deeply informed" analysis of American power from the Spanish-American War to the Trump Administration ( New York Journal of Books).In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America's rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War, and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Question of Torture

    CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

    by Alfred McCoy ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    "An indispensable and riveting account" of the CIA's development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The Nation).In this revelatory account of the CIA's fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy locates the deep roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in a long-standing, covert program of interrogation. A ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • To Govern the Globe

    World Orders and Catastrophic Change

    by Alfred W. McCoy ...
    In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders.During the long centuries of Iberian and British imperial rule, the quest for new forms of energy led ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam

    Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

    by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, Alex Danchev, David Elliott, Elizabeth L. Hillman, Gabriel Kolko, Walter LaFeber, Wilfried Mausbach, Alfred W. McCoy, Gareth Porter, John Prados ...
    Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer "history at its best, meaning, at its most useful." —Howard ZinnFrom the launch of the "Shock and Awe" invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush's declaration of "Mission Accomplished" two months later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate definitively that the United States had learned the lessons of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    To Govern the Globe

    World Orders and Catastrophic Change

    by Alfred W. McCoy ...
    Narrated by Dan Woren ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 42 min

    In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders.During the long centuries of Iberian and British imperial rule, the quest for new forms of energy led ... Read more

    $34.29 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Beer of Broadway Fame

    The Piel Family and Their Brooklyn Brewery

    by Alfred W. McCoy ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    Explores the hundred-year history of Piel Bros., one of the prominent German American brands that once made New York City the brewing capital of America.Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional categoryFor more than a century, New York City was the brewing capital of America, with more breweries producing more beer than any other city, including Milwaukee and St ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • War On Drugs

    Studies In The Failure Of U.s. Narcotics Policy

    by Alfred W. Mccoy ...
    Since George Bush declared his war on drugs in 1989, cocaine addiction in America has increased 15%, and narcotics have emerged as major commodities from the Third World. Focusing on US narcotics policy, Latin America's cocaine traffic and Asia's heroin trade, the essays in this book offer evidence indicating that the war is not working. ... Read more

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    In the Shadows of the American Century

    The Rise and Decline of US Global Power

    by Alfred W. McCoy ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 32 min

    In a completely original analysis, prizewinning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power—from the 1890s through the Cold War—and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony—covert intervention, client elites, ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    After the Apocalypse

    America's Role in a World Transformed

    by Andrew Bacevich ...
    Narrated by Peter Coyote ...
    Series series American Empire Project

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century, from Andrew J. Bacevich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Limits of Power and The Age of Illusions.The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Mapping the Great Game

    Explorers, Spies, and Maps in 19th-Century Asia

    by Riaz Dean ...
    Narrated by Zehra Jane Naqvi ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 44 min

    In the 19th century, the British and Russian empires were engaged in bitter rivalry for the acquisition of Southern Asian. Although India was the ultimate prize, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan, and Tibet. Mapping the region and gaining knowledge of the enemy were crucial to the interests of both sides.The Great Trigonometrical ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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