Alfred W. McCoy | Academic Influence

Alfred W. McCoy's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Alfred W. McCoy

History

#365

World Rank

#649

Historical Rank

#168

USA Rank

history Degrees

Download Badge

History

Alfred W. McCoy's Degrees

Bachelors History Columbia University

Similar Degrees You Can Earn

Best Online Bachelor’s of History 2024

Why Is Alfred W. McCoy Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Alfred "Al" William McCoy is an American historian and educator. He is the Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He specializes in the history of the Philippines, foreign policy of the United States, European colonisation of Southeast Asia, illegal drug trade, and Central Intelligence Agency covert operations.

(See a Problem?)

Alfred W. McCoy's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (2006) (273)
An anarchy of families : state and family in the Philippines (1994) (258)
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972) (224)
Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (2009) (99)
Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy (2001) (85)
Philippine Social History: Global Trade and Local Transformations (1982) (83)
Science in Dachau's shadow: Hebb, Beecher, and the development of CIA psychological torture and modern medical ethics. (2007) (79)
The politics of heroin. CIA complicity in the global drug trade: Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia. (1992) (62)
Southeast Asia under Japanese occupation (1981) (42)
Philippine Populism: Local Violence and Global Context in the Rise of a Filipino Strongman (2017) (33)
Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation (2012) (32)
“Same Banana”: Hazing and Honor at the Philippine Military Academy (1995) (26)
Crime, Society and the State in the Nineteenth Century Philippines . By Greg Bankoff. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1995. viii, 247 pp. $22.00 (paper). (1997) (23)
War On Drugs: Studies In The Failure Of U.s. Narcotics Policy (1992) (22)
Unintended Consequences: Illegal Drugs and Drug Policies in Nine Countries (1995) (19)
Laos: war and revolution (1970) (19)
REFLECTIONS ON HISTORY'S LARGEST AIR WAR (2013) (19)
Ylo-ilo : factional conflict in a colonial economy, Iloilo province, Philippines, 1937-1955 (1978) (16)
Endless Empire: Spain's Retreat, Europe's Eclipse, America's Decline (2012) (16)
FROM FREE TRADE TO PROHIBITION: A CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN ASIAN OPIUM TRADE (2000) (15)
Philippine cartoons: Political caricature of the American era, 1900-1941 (1985) (15)
Priests On Trial (1984) (13)
Coercion and its unintended consequences: A study of heroin trafficking in Southeast and South West Asia (2000) (13)
Lord of drug lords: One life as lesson for US drug policy (1998) (12)
Global Populism: A Lineage of Filipino Strongmen from Quezon to Marcos and Duterte (2017) (11)
Land reform as counter-revolution (1971) (10)
Philippine Commonwealth and cult of masculinity (2000) (9)
Sugar Barons: Formation of a Native Planter Class in the Colonial Philippines (1992) (9)
Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War (2013) (8)
America's Secret War in Laos, 1955–75 (2007) (8)
Cruel Science: CIA Torture and U.S. Foreign Policy (2005) (8)
The Iloilo General Strike: Defeat of the Proletariat in a Philippine Colonial City (1984) (6)
Lives at the margin : biography of Filipinos, obscure, ordinary and heroic (2002) (6)
Surveillance and Scandal: Weapons in an Emerging Array for U.S. Global Power (2014) (4)
Culture and Consciousness in a Philippine City (1982) (4)
Social Engineering in the Philippines: The Aims, Execution, and Impact of American Colonial Policy 1900–1913 . By Glenn Anthony May. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980. Illustrations, Tables, Series Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Appendices, Notes, Bibliographical Essay, Index. (1983) (4)
Circles of Steel, Castles of Vanity: The Geopolitics of Military Bases on the South China Sea (2016) (4)
Covert Netherworld: An Invisible Interstice in the Modern World System (2016) (3)
A Tale of Two Families: Generational Succession in Filipino and American Family Firms (2015) (3)
A Rupture in Philippine-U.S. Relations: Geopolitical Implications (2016) (3)
Torture and Impunity (2012) (3)
The outcast of Camp Echo: the punishment of David Hicks. (2006) (3)
6. Beyond Susan Sontag Th e Seduction of Psychological Torture (2012) (2)
Can Anyone Pacify the World's Number One Narco-State? The Opium Wars in Afghanistan00NuLY'0nûªÖ¨V˝ 0íìÆ0Å0F0ã0Ç0n0o0D0ã0n0K 0¢ 0'0¨0À0π0ø0Û 0k0J0Q0ãñ?rGb&Nâ (2010) (2)
Policing the Imperial Periphery: The Philippine-American War and the Origins of U.S. Global Surveillance (2014) (2)
The Costs of Covert Warfare: Airpower, Drugs, and Warlords in the Conduct of U.S Foreign Policy (2003) (2)
Capillaries of empire: Colonial paciﬁcation and the origins of US global surveillance (2016) (2)
Japan in Asia, 1942-1945. (1984) (2)
Searching for Significance among Drug Lords and Death Squads: The Covert Netherworld as Invisible Incubator for Illicit Commerce (2019) (2)
U.S. Narcotics Policy: An Anatomy of Failure (2021) (1)
In the Minotaur's Labyrinth: Psychological Torture, Public Forgetting, and Contested History (2012) (1)
Beyond Susan Sontag (2012) (1)
Flowers of Evil: The CIA and the Heroin Trade (1972) (1)
Brian Fegan, 1937–2008 (2008) (0)
The Compulsive Culture (2001) (0)
Voluntarios leales: counter-revolution within the Philippine Revolution (1999) (0)
The Third Philippine Revolution (1983) (0)
Survey 1; Social History of the Philippine Archipelago-Problems of Time and Space (1984) (0)
The Failure of Drug Prohibition: Corruption, Collusion and Proliferation (2001) (0)
UCLA historical journal (2012) (0)
Performative violence and Philippine populism (2021) (0)
John Darwin’s Key Publications (2019) (0)
The Philippines (1991) (0)
US foreign policy and the tenant farmers of Asia. (1970) (0)
Obituary and Eulogy: Dr. Brian Fegan (2006) (0)
Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State (Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother) Reprinted from TomDispatch.com courtesy of Haymarket Books (2018) (0)
Sex, Drugs and Money (2001) (0)
Southeast Asia and the Costs of Modernity: Reflections on “The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia” (1997) (0)
Colonialismn and the Cult of Masculinity (2001) (0)
Good Drugs, Bad Drugs: The Human Face of Addiction (2001) (0)
Heroin as a Global Commodity: A History of Southeast Asia's Opium Trade (2021) (0)
Misled and betrayed: How US cover stories are keeping a Cold War weapon and illegal human testing secret (2013) (0)
The defence of David Hicks [Major Mori and American military justice.] (2006) (0)
Third World Communication (1987) (0)
The Burden of Proof: The Laurel-Vargas Collaboration Case. (1988) (0)
TRIBUTES: Nina Shapiro Adams 1943–2007 (2008) (0)
Filipino Politics: Development and Decay . By David Wurfel. Politics and International Relations of Southeast Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. xvi, 361 pp. $34.95. (1989) (0)
War on Drugs (2021) (0)
The Politics of Counterinsurgency in the Philippines: Military and Political Options . By Gareth Porter. Philippine Studies. Occasional Paper No. 9. University of Hawaii, Center for Philippine Studies, 1987. Pp. 148. Abbreviations, Notes. (1989) (0)
Pan Am makes the going great (1970) (0)
Reconciliation Around the World (2001) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Alfred W. McCoy

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Alfred W. McCoy?

Alfred W. McCoy is affiliated with the following schools: