Umfang:
Online-Ressource (x, 317 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1107416663
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9781107416666
Inhalt:
This book introduces the intrepid temperance advocates who formed America's longest-living minor political party - the Prohibition Party - drawing on the party's history to illuminate how American politics came to exclude minor parties from governance. Lisa M. F. Andersen traces the influence of pressure groups and ballot reforms, arguing that these innovations created a threshold for organization and maintenance that required extraordinary financial and personal resources from parties already lacking in both. More than most other minor parties, the Prohibition Party resisted an encroaching De
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Temperance, prohibition, and a partyDisorderly conduct in the emancipation era -- Women's peculiar partisanship -- "Collateral consequences" of the 1884 election -- Writing Prohibition into the soil -- Strenuous bodies -- Opposing the Prohibition amendment.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1107029376
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781107029378
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Politics of prohibition
Sprache:
Englisch
