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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schrad, Mark Lawrence, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prohibition--History.

Prohibition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (752 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration of Names

Preface

Archival Sources

1. Introduction-.Everything You Know about Prohibition Is Wrong

Part I: The Continental Empires

2. Two Tolstoys and a Lenin-Temperance and Prohibition in Russia

3. The Temperance Internationale-.Social Democrats against the Liquor Machine in Sweden and Belgium

4. Temperance, Liberalism, and Nationalism in the German and Austro-.Hungarian Empires

Part II: The British Empire

5. Temperance and Self-.Determination in the British Isles

6. Black Man's Burden, White Man's Liquor in Southern Africa

7. Gandhi, Indian Nationalism, and Temperance Resistance against the Raj

8. The Dry Man of Europe-.Ottoman Prohibition against British Domination

Part III: The United States

9. First Peoples, First Prohibitionists

10. Liquor and the Ethnic Cleansing of North America

11. "All Great Reforms Go Together"-.Temperance and Abolitionism

12. The Empire Club Strikes Back

13. A Tale of Two Franceses-.Temperance and Suffragism in the United States

14. The Progressive Soul of American Prohibition

15. Prohibition against American Imperialism

16. A People's History of American Prohibition

17. The Battle for a Dry America

18. Conclusion-.Where Did We Go Wrong?

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-752332-3

0-19-084159-1

OCLC:

1235904976