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- 376pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
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"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
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Smashing the Liquor Machine, Mark Lawrence Schrad
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2021
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- Titolo
- Smashing the Liquor Machine
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Mark Lawrence Schrad
- Editore
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Pubblicato
- 2021
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 376
- ISBN10
- 0190841575
- ISBN13
- 9780190841577
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Tema stórico, Scienze politiche & Politica, Politica, Storia degli Stati Uniti
- Valutazione
- 4 su 5
- Descrizione
- "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