Alfred W. McCoy – författare & böcker

To Govern the Globe

World Orders and Catastrophic Change

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

227 kr

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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 to the development of the colonial sugar plantation as a uniquely profitable kind of commerce. In a time when issues of race and social justice have arisen with pressing urgency, the book explains how the plantation’s extraordinary profitability relied on a production system that literally worked the slaves to death, creating an insatiable appetite for new captives that made the African slave trade a central feature of modern capitalism for over four centuries. After surveying past centuries roiled by imperial wars, national revolutions, and the struggle for human rights, the closing chapters use those hard-won insights to peer through the present and into the future. By rendering often-opaque environmental science in lucid prose, the book explains how climate change and changing world orders will shape the life opportunities for younger generations, born at the start of this century, during the coming decades that will serve as the signposts of their lives—2030, 2050, 2070, and beyond.

Cold War on Five Continents

A Global History of Empire and Espionage

AvAlfred W. McCoy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

354 kr

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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 a bottom-up, outside-in approach to offer an unexpected new perspective on the longest, most consequential conflict in modern history.McCoy renders an intimate portrait of both embattled covert operatives and committed antiwar protesters, thus humanizing the history of the Cold War—a history that has too often been told in impersonal terms of economic growth, nuclear arsenals, or diplomatic ententes.As today’s great powers devote humanity’s scarce resources toward ratcheting up a “new cold war” in the face of a worsening climate crisis, McCoy’s history is an important reminder that otherwise- ordinary individuals once helped end a global conflict that threatened nuclear holocaust.

From Rebellion to Riots

Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo

AvJamie Davidson,Alfred W. McCoy

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

263 kr

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From Rebellion to Riots is a critical analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. Since the late 1960s, this province has suffered periodic outbreaks of ethnic violence among its Dayak, Malay, Madurese, and ethnic Chinese populations. Citing evidence from his research, internal military documents, and ethnographic accounts, Jamie S. Davidson refutes popular explanations for these flare-ups. The recurrent violence has less to do with a clash of cultures, the ills of New Order - led development, or indigenous marginalization than with the ongoing politicization of ethnic and indigenous identity in the region.Looking at key historical moments, markedly different in their particulars, Davidson reveals the important links between ethnic violence and subnational politics. In one case, army officers in Soeharto's recently established New Order regime encouraged anti-Chinese sentiments. To move against communist-inspired rebellion, they recruited indigenous Dayaks to expunge tens of thousands of ethnic Chinese from interior towns and villages.This counter-insurgent bloodshed inadvertently initiated a series of clashes between Dayaks and Madurese, another migrant community. Driven by an indigenous empowerment movement and efforts by local elites to control benefits provided by decentralization and democratization, these low-intensity riots rose to immense proportions in the late 1990s. ""From Rebellion to Riots"" demonstrates that the endemic violence in this vast region is not the inevitable outcome of its ethnic diversity, and reveals that the initial impetus for collective bloodshed is not necessarily the same as the forces that sustain it.

Anarchy of Families

State and Family in the Philippines

AvAlfred W. McCoy

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

317 kr

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Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, this pioneering volume reveals how the power of Filipino family-based oligarchies both derives from and contributes to a weak, corrupt state. From provincial warlords to modern managers, prominent Philippine leaders have fused family, politics, and business to subvert public institutions and amass private wealth - an historic pattern that continues to the present day.Edited by Alfred W. McCoy, ""An Anarchy of Families"" explores the pervasive influence of the modern dynasties that have led the Philippines during the past century. From the Osmenas to the Lopezes and Pardo de Taveras, elite Filipino families have acted as formidable coalitions - controlling capital, dominating national politics, and deploying paramilitary force. Beyond Manila, strong men such as Ramon Durano, Ali Dimaporo, and Justiniano Montano have used 'guns, goons, and gold' to accumulate wealth and power in far-flung islands and provinces.

Amazons of the Huk Rebellion

Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines

AvVina A. Lanzona,Alfred W. McCoy

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

285 kr

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Policing America's Empire

The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State

AvAlfred W. McCoy

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

437 kr

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At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to today's war in Iraq. Armed with cutting-edge technology from America's first information revolution, the U.S. colonial regime created the most modern police and intelligence units anywhere under the American flag. In ""Policing America's Empire"" Alfred W. McCoy shows how this imperial panopticon slowly crushed the Filipino revolutionary movement with a lethal mix of firepower, surveillance, and incriminating information. Even after Washington freed its colony and won global power in 1945, it would intervene in the Philippines periodically for the next half-century - using the country as a laboratory for counterinsurgency and rearming local security forces for repression. In trying to create a democracy in the Philippines, the United States unleashed profoundly undemocratic forces that persist to the present day. But security techniques bred in the tropical hothouse of colonial rule were not contained, McCoy shows, at this remote periphery of American power. Migrating homeward through both personnel and policies, these innovations helped shape a new federal security apparatus during World War I. Once established under the pressures of wartime mobilization, this distinctively American system of public-private surveillance persisted in various forms for the next fifty years, as an omnipresent, sub rosa matrix that honeycombed U.S. society with active informers, secretive civilian organizations, and government counterintelligence agencies. In each succeeding global crisis, this covert nexus expanded its domestic operations, producing new contraventions of civil liberties - from the harassment of labor activists and ethnic communities during World War I, to the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, all the way to the secret blacklisting of suspected communists during the Cold War.

Closer Than Brothers

Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy

AvAlfred W. McCoy

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

693 kr

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In this innovative book, Alfred W. McCoy takes a new approach to the military and political history of the Philippines. Comparing two generations of graduates from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA)—the classes of 1940 and 1971—McCoy uncovers fundamental differences in their academic socialization and subsequent ascent to power. Viewed through this comparative lens, the story of these two classes becomes the history of the entire Philippine army, offering important insights into the complexities of Filipino involvement in war and peace from the 1930s to the 1990s.Drawing on extensive interviews with these officers, as well as on diaries and memoirs, the book details for the first time activities of the secretive brotherhood that is the Filipino officer corps. Members of the class of 1940, who bonded to one another in PMA training modeled after West Point’s, emerged from heroic battles against Japanese invaders with their belief in civil supremacy over the military affirmed. In postwar decades, they actively blocked coup attempts. By contrast, the class of ’71 emerged from the academy to become the fist of the Marcos dictatorship. Their involvement in torture ruptured the academy’s socialization and inspired them to launch six coup attempts in the late 1980s. The collective biographies of these officers offer insights not only into Philippine history but also into topics of wider global import—the influence of male gender on a distinctly gendered institution, the causes of coup d’état, and the collective trauma of torture.

War On Drugs

Studies In The Failure Of U.s. Narcotics Policy

AvAlfred W. Mccoy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

1 993 kr

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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.

War On Drugs

Studies In The Failure Of U.s. Narcotics Policy

AvAlfred W. Mccoy

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

693 kr

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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.

A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

AvAlfred W. McCoy

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

279 kr

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Beer of Broadway Fame

The Piel Family and Their Brooklyn Brewery

AvAlfred W. McCoy

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

323 kr

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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 category For 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. Louis. In Beer of Broadway Fame, Alfred W. McCoy traces the hundred-year history of the prominent Brooklyn brewery, Piel Bros., and provides an intimate portrait of the company's German American family. Through quality and innovation Piel Bros. grew from Brooklyn's smallest brewery in 1884, producing only 850 kegs, into the sixteenth-largest brewery in America, brewing over a million barrels by 1952. Through a narrative spanning three generations, McCoy examines the demoralizing impact of pervasive US state surveillance during World War I and the Cold War, as well as the forced assimilation that virtually erased German American identity from public life after World War I. McCoy traces Piel Bros.'s changing fortunes from its early struggle to survive in New York's Gilded Age beer market, the travails of Prohibition with police raids and gangster death threats, to the crushing competition from the big national brands after World War II. Through a fusion of corporate records with intimate personal correspondence, McCoy reveals the social forces that changed a great city, the US brewing industry, and the country's economy.

Politics of Heroin

CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

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Häftad, Engelska, 2003

371 kr

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To Govern the Globe

World Orders and Catastrophic Change

AvAlfred W. McCoy

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

207 kr

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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 to the development of the colonial sugar plantation as a uniquely profitable kind of commerce. In a time when issues of race and social justice have arisen with pressing urgency, the book explains how the plantation’s extraordinary profitability relied on a production system that literally worked the slaves to death, creating an insatiable appetite for new captives that made the African slave trade a central feature of modern capitalism for over four centuries. After surveying past centuries roiled by imperial wars, national revolutions, and the struggle for human rights, the closing chapters use those hard-won insights to peer through the present and into the future. By rendering often-opaque environmental science in lucid prose, the book explains how climate change and changing world orders will shape the life opportunities for younger generations, born at the start of this century, during the coming decades that will serve as the signposts of their lives—2030, 2050, 2070, and beyond.

In the Shadows of the American Century

The Rise and Decline of US Global Power

AvAlfred W. McCoy

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

121 kr

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For a decade America’s share of the global economy has been in decline. Its diplomatic alliances are under immense strain, and any claim of moral leadership has been abandoned. America is still a colossus, possessing half the world’s manufacturing capacity, nearly half its military forces, and a formidable system of global surveillance and covert operations. But even at its peak it may have been sowing the seeds of its own destruction.Is it realistic to rely on the global order established after World War II, or are we witnessing the changing of the guard, with China emerging as the world’s economic and military powerhouse? America clings to its superpower status, but for how much longer?

I skuggan av det amerikanska århundradet : USA-imperiets uppgång och fall

AvAlfred W. McCoy

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Inbunden, Svenska, 2018

246 kr

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USA:s tid som världshärskare är snart över. Det hävdar Alfred W. McCoy i boken I skuggan av det amerikanska århundradet. Fallet som började redan med Irakkriget 2003 kan vara fullbordad 2025-2030, då Kina kommer att ha gått förbi vad gäller samtliga mått på global makt.

År 1941 hävdade tidskriften Life att det följande seklet skulle bli det amerikanska århundradet . En förutsägelse som länge såg ut att besannas.

Men idag anser ledande tankesmedjor i Washington att det amerikanska århundradet inte kommer att kunna bestå i 100 år. I sin bok I skuggan av det amerikanska århundradet skildrar Alfred W. McCoy hur det amerikanska imperiet tog form på 1890-talet, blev ledande efter andra världskriget och sedan har kunnat behålla sin position ända fram till våra dagar. Framgångsreceptet har varit en oöverträffad militär, ekonomisk och diplomatisk styrka i kombination med en unik organisation för hemliga operationer som styr och avsätter regeringar över hela världen. På alla dessa områden är emellertid USA:s makt redan idag försvagad.

Författaren beskriver fyra scenarier för hur i en nära framtid Förenta staterna kommer att förlora sin hegemoniska ställning: I det minst dramatiska alternativet accepterar landet att mista sin ledarroll och inordnar sig i en ny världsordning. I det mest dramatiska tillgriper USA militära medel för att hejda konkurrenternas frammarsch.

OM FÖRFATTARENAlfred W. McCoy är professor i historia vid University of Wisconsin-Madison med inriktning på Sydostasiatisk historia, moderna imperier och amerikansk utrikespolitik.

UR BOKENUSA:s frånfälle som främsta världsmakt kan komma långt snabbare än någon kan föreställa sig. Trots den aura av allsmäktighet som imperier ofta omger sig med är de flesta överraskande bräckliga och saknar den inneboende styrka som även den blygsammaste nationalstat äger. En blick på imperiernas historia påminner oss om hur känsliga även de största varit för sammanbrott. Så ömtålig är deras maktekologi att när det verkligen börjar gå fel nystas imperierna som regel upp i ursinnig takt: det tog bara 1 år för Portugal, 2 år för Sovjetunionen, 8 år för Frankrike, 11 år för ottomanerna, 17 år för Storbritannien och troligen bara 27 år för USA, räknat från det avgörande året 2003.

Tillgängliga ekonomiska, utbildningsmässiga och tekniska data tyder på att negativa trender, när det gäller Förenta staternas världsmakt, troligen kommer att hopa sig snabbt omkring 2020 och kan nå en kritisk massa senast 2030. Det amerikanska århundradet, som proklamerades så triumferande i början av andra världskriget, kan vara söndertrasat och på väg att förblekna 2025 för att vara över till 2030.

OM BOKEN"En briljant och ytterst välinformerad måsteläsning för alla som är seriöst intresserade av geopolitik, imperiers historia och skapandet av framtiden." New York Journal of Books

"Ett slags obduktion av ett döende imperium som har förslösat sitt moraliska kapital på masstortyr och massövervakning. De mörka scenarier över imperiets slut som McCoy målar upp kan emellertid också innebära positiva möjligheter för samhällelig förändring, då kraven på ständiga krig kan få ett slut." Progressive

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Alfred W. McCoy – författare

To Govern the Globe

Cold War on Five Continents

From Rebellion to Riots

Anarchy of Families

Amazons of the Huk Rebellion

Policing America's Empire

Closer Than Brothers

War On Drugs

War On Drugs

A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

Beer of Broadway Fame

Politics of Heroin

To Govern the Globe

In the Shadows of the American Century

I skuggan av det amerikanska århundradet : USA-imperiets uppgång och fall

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