Books by "George Huntington Williams"
5 books found
The Fine Historical Library of Dr. George C.F. Williams, Hartford, Conn ...
by George Clinton Fairchild Williams
1926 · New York : The Anderson Galleries
Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library, George Peabody Library
1905
George Fisher seeks the moral roots of America's antidrug regime and challenges claims that early antidrug laws arose from racial animus. Those moral roots trace to early Christian sexual strictures, which later influenced Puritan condemnations of drunkenness, and ultimately shaped the early American drug war. Early laws against opium dens, cocaine, and cannabis rarely rose from racial strife, but sprang from the traditional moral censure of intoxication and perceived threats to respectable white women and youth. The book closes with an examination of cannabis legalization, driven in part by the movement for racial justice.