Smashing the Liquor Machine

A Global History of Prohibition

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19977028
AutoresMark Lawrence Schrad (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Villanova University, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Páginas376
Data de publicação2021-06-22
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoSmashing the Liquor Machine (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780190841577.001.0001
OpenAlexW3199092252
Open LibraryOL29504089M
ISBN9780190841577
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14

When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, gin runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American event. Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in this book, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global wave of prohibition laws that occurred around the same time. Schrad's counterintuitive global history of prohibition looks at the anti-alcohol movement around the globe through the experiences of pro-temperance leaders like Thomas Masaryk, founder of Czechoslovakia, Vladimir Lenin, Leo Tolstoy, and anti-colonial activists in India

Business · American History and Culture · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · History · Prohibition · Sociology · Temperance