Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, 1900-1920 / James H. Timberlake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Timberlake, James H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prohibition--United States.

Prohibition.

Progressivism (United States politics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

2nd printing 1966. Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Progressive Movement endeavored to come to grips with the two great problems threatening American democracy: the growing power of big business on the one hand, and, on the other, the mounting discontent of the lower classes, especially among urban industrial workers. It sought to solve these two problems by democratizing the machinery of government and using government to control big business and to improve the lot of the underprivileged. To achieve these ends, the Progressive Movement embraced a wide variety of individual reforms, one of the more important and least understood of which was prohibition. Although today sometimes regarded as a conservative measure, prohibition was actually written into the Constitution as a progressive reform. As an integral part of the Progressive Movement, prohibition drew on the same moral idealism and sought to deal with the same basic problems. - Introduction.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of illustrations

Introduction

I. The Religious Argument

II. The Scientific and Social Arguments

III. The Economic Argument

IV. The Political Argument

V. Pressure Politics: The Anti-Saloon League

VI. Toward a Dry Utopia

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-86549-9

9780674865495

OCLC:

1013941226