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# Alfred W. McCoy

(1945)   Historian

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Alfred W. McCoy is a historian.

## Quick Facts About Alfred W. McCoy

Born June 8, 1945

Profession Historian

## About Alfred W. McCoy

American historian of Southeast Asia and of the drug trades... \| Alfred 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

##  Quotes by Alfred W. McCoy

> [“Psychology’s service to U.S. national security has produced a variant of what the psychiatrist Robert Lifton has called, in his study of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-w-mccoy/psychology-s-service-to-u-s-national-security-has-produced-a-variant/)

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