Smashing the liquor machine: [electronic resource] : a global history of prohibition

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서명/저자사항	Smashing the liquor machine: [electronic resource]: a global history of prohibition / Mark Lawrence Schrad.
개인저자	Schrad, Mark Lawrence, author.
발행사항	New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2021]
형태사항	1 online resource (xxiii, 725 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
ISBN	9780197523322 0197523323 9780190841591 0190841591 9780190841584 0190841583
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	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?
요약	"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"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Prohibition --History. Temperance --History. Prohibition. Temperance.
분류기호(DDC)	364.1332
언어	영어
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