Profits, Power, and Prohibition: American Alcohol Reform and the Industrializing of America, 1800-1930

by John J. Rumbarger

This is the first comprehensive study of America's anti-liquor/anti-drug movement from its origins in the late eighteenth century through the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1933. It examines the role that capitalism played in defining and shaping this reform movement. Rumbarger challenges conventional explanations of the history of this movement and offers compelling counter-arguments to explain the movement's historical development. He successfully...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887067824
• ISBN13: 9780887067822
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"