Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition

by Mark Lawrence Schrad

Book Overview

This is the history of temperance and prohibition as you've never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movement that affected virtually every significant world leader from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries.

When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190841575
• ISBN13: 9780190841577
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 6.3" x 9.4"