UID:
almahu_9949161019102882
Format:
1 online resource (752 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white, and colour).
ISBN:
9780197523322 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
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.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2021.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780190841577
Language:
English
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
