Smashing the liquor machine : a global history of prohibition / Mark Lawrence Schrad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schrad, Mark Lawrence, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prohibition--History.

Prohibition.

Temperance--History.

Temperance.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 725 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Everything you know about prohibition is wrong

Part I. 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 Empire

Part III. The British Empire. Temperance and self-determination int he British Isles

Black man's burden, white man's liquor in Southern Africa

Gandhi, Indian Nationalism, and the temperance resistance against the Raj

The dry man of Europe

Ottoman prohibition against British domination

Part III. 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 dry America

Conclusion

where did we go wrong?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-695) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version:

Schrad, Mark Lawrence. Smashing the liquor machine

Online version: Schrad, Mark Lawrence. Smashing the liquor machine

ISBN:

9780190841577

0190841575

OCLC:

1145610630