{"product_id":"histories-of-drug-trafficking-in-twentieth-century-mexico-9780826367365","title":"Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWil G. Pansters\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of social and political anthropology of Latin America at Utrecht University. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eViolence, Coercion and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico: The Other Half of the Centaur\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLa Santa Muerte in Mexico: History, Devotion, and Society\u003c\/i\u003e (UNM Press). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin T. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick. His works include \u003ci\u003eThe Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750-1962\u003c\/i\u003e (UNM Press).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of New Mexico Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51806063853842,"sku":"9780826367365","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d7f2dbe3-7eca-4592-be24-d86730c10a8f.jpg?v=1765973716","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/histories-of-drug-trafficking-in-twentieth-century-mexico-9780826367365","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}