| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 725 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
Introduction: everything you know about prohibition is wrong -- The continental empires. Two Tolstoys and a Lenin : temperance and prohibition in Russia -- The temperance internationale : Social Democrats against the liquor machine in Sweden and Belgium -- Temperance, liberalism, and nationalism in the German and Austro-Hungarian empires -- The British Empire. Temperance and self-determination in the British Isles -- Black man's burden, white man's liquor in southern Africa -- Gandhi, Indian nationalism, and temperance resistance against the raj -- The dry man of Europe : Ottoman prohibition against British domination -- The United States. First peoples, first prohibitionists -- Liquor and the ethnic cleansing of North America -- "All great reforms go together" : temperance and abolitionism -- The empire club strikes back -- A tale of two Franceses : temperance and suffragism in the United States -- The progressive soul of American prohibition -- Prohibition against American imperialism -- A people's history of American prohibition -- The battle for a dry America -- Conclusion : where did we go wrong? |
| Summary |
"The book begins with a vignette of the world's most famous--and most misunderstood--prohibitionist: the hatchet-wielding saloon smasher, Carrie Nation. A deeper investigation finds that she was anything but the Bible-thumping, white, conservative evangelical that she's commonly made out to be; but rather a populist-progressive equal rights crusader. Chapter 1 lays bare the shortcomings of the dominant, historical narrative of temperance and prohibitionism as uniquely American developments resulting from a clash of religious and cultural groups. By examining the global history of prohibition, we can shed new light on the American experience. Answering the fundamental question--why prohibition? This book argues that temperance was a global resistance movement against imperialism, subjugation, and the predatory capitalism of a liquor traffic in which political and economic elites profited handsomely from the addiction and misery of the people"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (EBSCOhost, viewed November 5, 2021) |
| Subject |
Prohibition -- History
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Temperance -- History
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Prohibition
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Temperance
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021000208 |
| ISBN |
9780197523322 |
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0197523323 |
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9780190841591 |
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0190841591 |
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9780190841584 |
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0190841583 |
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