Isaac Campos
Biographic Data
| ID | 712780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isaac Campos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaac |
| FAMILY NAME | Campos |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPOS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7181-1391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Dope
This book is based in a decade of extraordinary research in national, state, and local archives by its author and other scholars, principally Wil Pansters (I participated in two related conferences organized and funded by them). The mining of these archives, particularly the rarely visited state and local collections, along with the stimulating conferences, has already made a major contribution to the field of Mexican drug history, while publishe…
Mexico, Shanghai, and Drug History’s Global Turn
This essay introduces the field of Mexican drug history and the five essays that follow in this special issue. Through a brief review of some major points of interest and contention over more than five hundred years of history, it argues that the related scholarship is coming into its own and should be of considerable interest to drug historians worldwide
Mexicans and the Origins of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States
This article challenges what Isaac Campos calls the “Mexican hypothesis” regarding marijuana criminalization in the U.S. The Mexican hypothesis holds that Mexican migrant workers brought marijuana to the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, and that marijuana prohibition was a racially-motivated effort to criminalize and control those workers. Campos traces the origins of this hypothesis to the earliest scholarly histories of marijuana in the 19…
A diplomatic failure
In 1940 Mexico implemented a new revolutionary strategy in its fight against drug trafficking and addiction with a policy that legalized the sale of morphine to opiate addicts. While this approach to drug addiction was not entirely new or unique, it was strongly opposed by the United States, which responded by declaring an embargo on narcotic shipments to Mexico. As a result, Mexico was forced to abandon the plan just a few months after it was im…
George T. Díaz. Border Contraband
Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande closely analyzes the history of smuggling along the Rio Grande between the middle of the nineteenth century and World War II. While there has been no shortage of work in recent years on borderlands history, surprisingly little historical research has been dedicated specifically to understanding the practice of smuggling and its social, cultural, and economic role in this region. This…
Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
For the historian, drugs (including alcohol) are Janus-faced. In some respects, they are eminently ordinary commodities, produced, transported, consumed, and taxed like any other consumable. Even high-profile illicit drugs like cocaine and heroin appear almost mundane with respect to the laws of supply and demand. But in other respects, drugs are almost unique in their ability to rouse visceral responses in people, attracting some, repulsing othe…
Toward a New Drug History of Latin America
This introduction brings the issue of Latin American drug trades and cultures into conversation with the region's historiography. Illicit drugs are now notoriously associated with Latin America and represent untold billions in exports, generating over the last three decades tremendous violence, instability, and public controversy. Yet historians are just starting to seriously research the topic. Psychoactive drugs, broadly conceived, have been ce…
In Search of Real Reform
Additional informationNotes on contributorsIsaac CamposIsaac Campos teaches history at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2012)
Degeneration and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
In the early twentieth century, the concept of “degeneration” helped to turn “drugs” into a problem of national importance in Mexico. By invoking this concept, Mexico's sanitary authorities secured provisions in the Constitution of 1917 which specifically authorized a newly constituted Department of Public Sanitation to lead a nation-wide campaign against drug abuse. That Department then inaugurated Mexico's modern war on drugs when, in 1920, it …
Toward a New Drug History of Latin America
This introduction brings the issue of Latin American drug trades and cultures into conversation with the region's historiography. Illicit drugs are now notoriously associated with Latin America and represent untold billions in exports, generating over the last three decades tremendous violence, instability, and public controversy. Yet historians are just starting to seriously research the topic. Psychoactive drugs, broadly conceived, have been ce…
Mexicans and the Origins of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States
This article challenges what Isaac Campos calls the “Mexican hypothesis” regarding marijuana criminalization in the U.S. The Mexican hypothesis holds that Mexican migrant workers brought marijuana to the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, and that marijuana prohibition was a racially-motivated effort to criminalize and control those workers. Campos traces the origins of this hypothesis to the earliest scholarly histories of marijuana in the 19…
Degeneration and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
In the early twentieth century, the concept of “degeneration” helped to turn “drugs” into a problem of national importance in Mexico. By invoking this concept, Mexico's sanitary authorities secured provisions in the Constitution of 1917 which specifically authorized a newly constituted Department of Public Sanitation to lead a nation-wide campaign against drug abuse. That Department then inaugurated Mexico's modern war on drugs when, in 1920, it …
A diplomatic failure
In 1940 Mexico implemented a new revolutionary strategy in its fight against drug trafficking and addiction with a policy that legalized the sale of morphine to opiate addicts. While this approach to drug addiction was not entirely new or unique, it was strongly opposed by the United States, which responded by declaring an embargo on narcotic shipments to Mexico. As a result, Mexico was forced to abandon the plan just a few months after it was im…
Mexico, Shanghai, and Drug History’s Global Turn
This essay introduces the field of Mexican drug history and the five essays that follow in this special issue. Through a brief review of some major points of interest and contention over more than five hundred years of history, it argues that the related scholarship is coming into its own and should be of considerable interest to drug historians worldwide
Degeneration and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
In the early twentieth century, the concept of “degeneration” helped to turn “drugs” into a problem of national importance in Mexico. By invoking this concept, Mexico's sanitary authorities secured provisions in the Constitution of 1917 which specifically authorized a newly constituted Department of Public Sanitation to lead a nation-wide campaign against drug abuse. That Department then inaugurated Mexico's modern war on drugs when, in 1920, it …
In Search of Real Reform
Additional informationNotes on contributorsIsaac CamposIsaac Campos teaches history at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2012)
Toward a New Drug History of Latin America
This introduction brings the issue of Latin American drug trades and cultures into conversation with the region's historiography. Illicit drugs are now notoriously associated with Latin America and represent untold billions in exports, generating over the last three decades tremendous violence, instability, and public controversy. Yet historians are just starting to seriously research the topic. Psychoactive drugs, broadly conceived, have been ce…
George T. Díaz. Border Contraband
Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande closely analyzes the history of smuggling along the Rio Grande between the middle of the nineteenth century and World War II. While there has been no shortage of work in recent years on borderlands history, surprisingly little historical research has been dedicated specifically to understanding the practice of smuggling and its social, cultural, and economic role in this region. This…
Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
For the historian, drugs (including alcohol) are Janus-faced. In some respects, they are eminently ordinary commodities, produced, transported, consumed, and taxed like any other consumable. Even high-profile illicit drugs like cocaine and heroin appear almost mundane with respect to the laws of supply and demand. But in other respects, drugs are almost unique in their ability to rouse visceral responses in people, attracting some, repulsing othe…
Mexicans and the Origins of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States
This article challenges what Isaac Campos calls the “Mexican hypothesis” regarding marijuana criminalization in the U.S. The Mexican hypothesis holds that Mexican migrant workers brought marijuana to the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, and that marijuana prohibition was a racially-motivated effort to criminalize and control those workers. Campos traces the origins of this hypothesis to the earliest scholarly histories of marijuana in the 19…
A diplomatic failure
In 1940 Mexico implemented a new revolutionary strategy in its fight against drug trafficking and addiction with a policy that legalized the sale of morphine to opiate addicts. While this approach to drug addiction was not entirely new or unique, it was strongly opposed by the United States, which responded by declaring an embargo on narcotic shipments to Mexico. As a result, Mexico was forced to abandon the plan just a few months after it was im…
Mexico, Shanghai, and Drug History’s Global Turn
This essay introduces the field of Mexican drug history and the five essays that follow in this special issue. Through a brief review of some major points of interest and contention over more than five hundred years of history, it argues that the related scholarship is coming into its own and should be of considerable interest to drug historians worldwide
The Dope
This book is based in a decade of extraordinary research in national, state, and local archives by its author and other scholars, principally Wil Pansters (I participated in two related conferences organized and funded by them). The mining of these archives, particularly the rarely visited state and local collections, along with the stimulating conferences, has already made a major contribution to the field of Mexican drug history, while publishe…
History (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychedelics and Drug Studies (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works)