Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition Schrad Mark Lawrence
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition Schrad Mark Lawrence This is the history of temperance and prohibition as you've never read it before: redefining temperance as a…
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Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition Schrad Mark Lawrence
This is the history of temperance and prohibition as you've never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movement that affected virtually every significant world leader from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries.When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. Schrad's pathbreaking history of prohibition looks at the anti-alcohol movement around the globe through the experiences of pro-temperance leaders In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history.Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon.