The politics of prohibition : American governance and the Prohibition Party, 1869-1933 / Lisa M.F. Andersen, the Juilliard School, New York.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andersen, Lisa M. F., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prohibition Party (U.S.)--History.

Prohibition Party (U.S.).

Prohibitionists--United States.

Prohibitionists.

Prohibition--United States.

Prohibition.

United States--Politics and government--1865-1933.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 317 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Summary:

This book introduces the intrepid temperance advocates who formed America's longest-living minor political party - the Prohibition Party - drawing on the party's history to illuminate how American politics came to exclude minor parties from governance. Lisa M. F. Andersen traces the influence of pressure groups and ballot reforms, arguing that these innovations created a threshold for organization and maintenance that required extraordinary financial and personal resources from parties already lacking in both. More than most other minor parties, the Prohibition Party resisted an encroaching Democratic-Republican stranglehold over governance. When Prohibitionists found themselves excluded from elections, they devised a variety of tactics: they occupied saloons, pressed lawsuits, forged utopian communities, and organized dry consumers to solicit alcohol-free products.

Contents:

Temperance, prohibition, and a party

Disorderly conduct in the emancipation era

Women's peculiar partisanship

"Collateral consequences" of the 1884 election

Writing Prohibition into the soil

Strenuous bodies

Opposing the Prohibition amendment.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89128-6

1-107-42429-1

1-107-42235-3

1-107-41932-8

1-107-41666-3

1-107-42052-0

1-139-33362-3

OCLC:

858601581