Alfred W Mccoy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 164337 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alfred W Mccoy |
| NOMBRES | Alfred W |
| APELLIDO | Mccoy |
| FIRMA | MCCOY A W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 157 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Searching for Significance among Drug Lords and Death Squads
In a search for appropriate theory, this essay inserts drug trafficking, the world’s largest illicit economic activity, within a wider analytical frame called the ‘covert netherworld.’ Through the convergence of three factors—covert operations, illicit commerce, and social milieu—such netherworlds can form at regional, national, and international levels, thereby transforming social margins of crime and illicit commerce into potent sources of poli…
Sugar barons
1992). Sugar barons: Formation of a native planter class in the colonial Philippines. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 19, Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia, pp. 106-141
Philippine Cartoons
A Rupture in Philippine-U.S. Relations
“Your honors, in this venue, I announce my separation from the United States ... both in military, but economics also,” said Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to a burst of applause from an audience of officials in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, the symbolic seat of China's ruling Communist Party. At the Philippine-Chinese trade forum that same day, October 20, 2016, Duterte opened his speech by asking, “What is really wrong with an Ameri…
Covert Netherworld
This essay explores a domain of geopolitical conflict called “covert netherworld” that has been a seminal in world politics for the past half century and likely to become more central in the century to come. During the Cold War and its aftermath, covert netherworlds formed worldwide through confluence of four essential elements: reliance of modern states on covert methods for power projection at home and abroad; the consequent emergence of a clan…
Circles of Steel, Castles of Vanity
After four years of rising tensions over China's construction of military bases in the South China Sea, in July 2016 the Permanent Court of Arbitration issued a landmark decision layered with meaning, academic as well as diplomatic. "China's claims to historic rights, or other sovereign rights or jurisdiction," wrote the panel of five judges, "with respect to the maritime areas ... encompassed by the relevant part of the 'nine-dash line' are cont…
A Tale of Two Families
Through comparison of two families, Filipino and American, this essay finds that the axiomatic three-generational cycle of rise and decline, articulated famously by Andrew Carnegie, proved predictive for an American family firm but not for its Filipino counterpart. Over the span of a century, both families followed a surprisingly similar move from agriculture to food processing and then publishing. Thereafter, however, divergent state policies sh…
Surveillance and Scandal
During six riveting months in 2013–2014, Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) poured out from the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, Germany's Der Spiegel, and Brazil's O Globo, revealing nothing less than the architecture of the U.S. global surveillance apparatus. Despite heavy media coverage and commentary, no one has pointed out the combination of factors that made the NSA's expanding programs t…
Voices from the Plain of Jars
During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos. Two million tons of bombs were dropped on one million people. Fred Branfman, an educational advisor living in Laos at the time, interviewed over 1,000 Laotian survivors. Shocked by what he heard and saw, he urged them to record their experiences in essays, poems, and pictures. Voices from the Plain of Jars was the result of that effort. When f…
Torture and Impunity
Torture and Impunity
Philippine Commonwealth and Cult of Masculinity
L'A. examine la maniere dont le modele euro-americain de la masculinite a ete introduit aux Philippines et a transforme la perception des roles sexuels et des categories de sexes a travers la mobilisation militaire du Commonwealth philippin avant la periode d'independance. En l'espace de deux decennies, d'une seule generation, la mobilisation et sa propagande ont convaincu un peuple sans tradition de service militaire d'accepter la conscription e…
Endless empire
Can Anyone Pacify the World's Number One Narco-State? The Opium Wars in Afghanistan
In ways that have escaped most observers, the Obama administration is now trapped in an endless cycle of drugs and death in Afghanistan from which there is neither an easy end nor an obvious exit
Brian Fegan, 1937–2008
Science in Dachau's shadow
The History of U.S.Torture
In April 2004, Americans were stunned when CBS broadcast those now-notorious photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, showing hooded Iraqis stripped naked while U.S. soldiers stood by smiling. As this scandal grabbed headlines around the globe, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted that the abuses were “perpetrated by a small number of U.S. military,” whom New York Times' columnist William Safire soon branded “creeps”–a line that few in th…
Lives at the Margin
This book examines the lives of the men and women who emerged from the margins of Philippine society to mobilize a mass following. Instead of focusing on national heroes, this volume follows an unexplored path by studying the lives of Filipinos ordinary an obscure. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, this volume's authors treat the men and women who emerged from the margins of Philippine society to mobilize a mass following. Some ma…
Closer than Brothers
Closer Than Brothers
Closer Than Brothers
xx, 425 p. : 25 cm
Southeast Asia and the Costs of Modernity
Backfire
This is the story of a hidden war between the US and the communist powers in the neutral country of Laos, which led to the Vietnamese War. This book offers a full account of this conflict, based on access to previously closed files and interviews with intelligence players, military officers and government officials. The narrative describes the key Americans who trained the Laotians peasants and tribal people and led them into battle. Hill tribesm…
Same Banana
On june 15, 1936, 120 fresh cadets assembled at Manila's Tutuban Station to board a train for the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), recently established in the mountain city of Baguio. At the end of the line, the cadets changed to Benguet Auto Line buses for the 4,000-foot climb up the zig-zag road to Baguio. As the buses pulled into the campus, some forty upperclassmen, all transfers from the superseded Constabulary Academy, were waiting to gre…
An Anarchy of Families State and Family in the Philippines
Philippine social history
Closer Than Brothers
xx, 425 p. : 25 cm
Torture and Impunity
Sugar barons
1992). Sugar barons: Formation of a native planter class in the colonial Philippines. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 19, Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia, pp. 106-141
Science in Dachau's shadow
Lives at the Margin
This book examines the lives of the men and women who emerged from the margins of Philippine society to mobilize a mass following. Instead of focusing on national heroes, this volume follows an unexplored path by studying the lives of Filipinos ordinary an obscure. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, this volume's authors treat the men and women who emerged from the margins of Philippine society to mobilize a mass following. Some ma…
Philippine Commonwealth and Cult of Masculinity
L'A. examine la maniere dont le modele euro-americain de la masculinite a ete introduit aux Philippines et a transforme la perception des roles sexuels et des categories de sexes a travers la mobilisation militaire du Commonwealth philippin avant la periode d'independance. En l'espace de deux decennies, d'une seule generation, la mobilisation et sa propagande ont convaincu un peuple sans tradition de service militaire d'accepter la conscription e…
Searching for Significance among Drug Lords and Death Squads
In a search for appropriate theory, this essay inserts drug trafficking, the world’s largest illicit economic activity, within a wider analytical frame called the ‘covert netherworld.’ Through the convergence of three factors—covert operations, illicit commerce, and social milieu—such netherworlds can form at regional, national, and international levels, thereby transforming social margins of crime and illicit commerce into potent sources of poli…
Philippine Cartoons
A Rupture in Philippine-U.S. Relations
“Your honors, in this venue, I announce my separation from the United States ... both in military, but economics also,” said Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to a burst of applause from an audience of officials in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, the symbolic seat of China's ruling Communist Party. At the Philippine-Chinese trade forum that same day, October 20, 2016, Duterte opened his speech by asking, “What is really wrong with an Ameri…
The Iloilo General Strike
In contrast to the rich historical literature on Southeast Asia's peasants, there are few studies of their urban counterparts, the proletariat of the colonial port cities. The region's rural revolts have inspired a growing literature on peasant politics and social history. But there has been little parallel research on the urban working class — stevedores, transport workers, and millhands
Closer than Brothers
Covert Netherworld
This essay explores a domain of geopolitical conflict called “covert netherworld” that has been a seminal in world politics for the past half century and likely to become more central in the century to come. During the Cold War and its aftermath, covert netherworlds formed worldwide through confluence of four essential elements: reliance of modern states on covert methods for power projection at home and abroad; the consequent emergence of a clan…
Circles of Steel, Castles of Vanity
After four years of rising tensions over China's construction of military bases in the South China Sea, in July 2016 the Permanent Court of Arbitration issued a landmark decision layered with meaning, academic as well as diplomatic. "China's claims to historic rights, or other sovereign rights or jurisdiction," wrote the panel of five judges, "with respect to the maritime areas ... encompassed by the relevant part of the 'nine-dash line' are cont…
Same Banana
On june 15, 1936, 120 fresh cadets assembled at Manila's Tutuban Station to board a train for the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), recently established in the mountain city of Baguio. At the end of the line, the cadets changed to Benguet Auto Line buses for the 4,000-foot climb up the zig-zag road to Baguio. As the buses pulled into the campus, some forty upperclassmen, all transfers from the superseded Constabulary Academy, were waiting to gre…
Pan Am makes the going great
The great Boeing 707/321C cargo jet rolled off the runway toward the unloading ramp of Travis Air Force Base. Turned and stopped by the white-overalled technician waving a long, orange-coned flashlight, its doors rolled open to reveal the lightweight load it had brought on its return from the distant battlefield: one hundred and sixty-eight plastic-wrapped, aluminum-boxed bundles, the bodies of American soldiers killed in Vietnam. Another Pan Ame…
Laos
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
But there was a large group of friends who cooperated with us, and we with them, in uncovering the political dimensions of the international heroin traffic. There are many persons in Southeast Asia who helped us immeasurably by supplying us with firsthand accounts of incidents and other inside information whose names may not be mentioned out of respect for their personal safety, but whose assistance is greatly appreciated. This group includes stu…
The Philippines
Sometime after 4 o'clock on the afternoon of 12 June 1898 in a small town just south of Manila a 'motley crowd' gathered before the gothic-style, wooden home of General Emilio Aguinaldo, commander of the Philippine revolutionary forces, to witness the declaration of independence from a Spanish colonial regime that had ruled the islands or more than three centuries. Appearing stolid and martial with the close-cropped haircut that matched the squar…
Southeast Asia Under Japanese Occupation
Philippine social history
The Iloilo General Strike
In contrast to the rich historical literature on Southeast Asia's peasants, there are few studies of their urban counterparts, the proletariat of the colonial port cities. The region's rural revolts have inspired a growing literature on peasant politics and social history. But there has been little parallel research on the urban working class — stevedores, transport workers, and millhands
Philippines
Philippine Social History. Global Trade and Local Transformations
Communications
The Canecutters
An Anarchy of Families State and Family in the Philippines
Same Banana
On june 15, 1936, 120 fresh cadets assembled at Manila's Tutuban Station to board a train for the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), recently established in the mountain city of Baguio. At the end of the line, the cadets changed to Benguet Auto Line buses for the 4,000-foot climb up the zig-zag road to Baguio. As the buses pulled into the campus, some forty upperclassmen, all transfers from the superseded Constabulary Academy, were waiting to gre…
Backfire
This is the story of a hidden war between the US and the communist powers in the neutral country of Laos, which led to the Vietnamese War. This book offers a full account of this conflict, based on access to previously closed files and interviews with intelligence players, military officers and government officials. The narrative describes the key Americans who trained the Laotians peasants and tribal people and led them into battle. Hill tribesm…
Southeast Asia and the Costs of Modernity
Closer Than Brothers
xx, 425 p. : 25 cm
Closer Than Brothers
Lives at the Margin
This book examines the lives of the men and women who emerged from the margins of Philippine society to mobilize a mass following. Instead of focusing on national heroes, this volume follows an unexplored path by studying the lives of Filipinos ordinary an obscure. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, this volume's authors treat the men and women who emerged from the margins of Philippine society to mobilize a mass following. Some ma…
Closer than Brothers
The History of U.S.Torture
In April 2004, Americans were stunned when CBS broadcast those now-notorious photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, showing hooded Iraqis stripped naked while U.S. soldiers stood by smiling. As this scandal grabbed headlines around the globe, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted that the abuses were “perpetrated by a small number of U.S. military,” whom New York Times' columnist William Safire soon branded “creeps”–a line that few in th…
Science in Dachau's shadow
Brian Fegan, 1937–2008
Can Anyone Pacify the World's Number One Narco-State? The Opium Wars in Afghanistan
In ways that have escaped most observers, the Obama administration is now trapped in an endless cycle of drugs and death in Afghanistan from which there is neither an easy end nor an obvious exit
Torture and Impunity
Torture and Impunity
Political science (27 obras) · History (21 obras) · Law (19 obras) · Philippine History and Culture (12 obras) · Politics (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · History (10 obras) · Ancient history (8 obras) · Archaeology (6 obras)