Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 317 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1107416663
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9781107416666
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1107029376
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107029378
Additional Edition:
Print version Politics of prohibition
Language:
English
