Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment : temperance reform, legal culture, and the polity, 1880-1920 / Richard F. Hamm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamm, Richard F., 1956- author.

Series:

Studies in Legal History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution--18th Amendment--History.

United States.

Liquor laws--United States--History.

Liquor laws.

Prohibition--United States--History.

Prohibition.

Temperance--United States--History.

Temperance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (593 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1995]

Summary:

Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920

Contents:

Cover Page; SHAPING THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE RADICALS AND THE POLITY; CHAPTER 1 THE RADICAL PROHIBITION MOVEMENT AND THE LIQUOR INDUSTRY; CHAPTER 2 LIQUOR AND INTERSTATE COMMERCE: COURT AND CONGRESS; CHAPTER 3 THE FEDERAL LIQUOR TAX AND THE RADICAL PROHIBITIONISTS; PART TWO PRAGMATISTS AND THE POLITY; CHAPTER 4 THE TRANSFORMATION OF PROHIBITIONIST MEANS; CHAPTER 5 THE LIQUOR TAX AND THE PRAGMATIC PROHIBITIONISTS; CHAPTER 6 INTERSTATE COMMERCE, PRAGMATIC PROHIBITIONISTS, AND FEDERAL POWER IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

CHAPTER 7 COMMERCE, PRAGMATIC PROHIBITIONISTS, AND CONGRESSCHAPTER 8 A DRY NATION; CONCLUSION; SOURCES AND TEXTUAL CONVENTIONS; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890866028

9780807861875

0807861871

OCLC:

823382276