| Názov : | Smashing the liquor machine : a global history of prohibition / | | Typ dokumentu: | printed text | | Autori: | Mark Lawrence Schrad | | Vydavateľ: | New York : Oxford University Press | | Dátum vydania: | 2021 | | Stránkovanie: | 725 pages | | ISBN (alebo iný kód): | 978-0-19-084157-7 | | Jazyky : | English (eng) | | Číslo MDT: | 364.1/332 | | Abstrakt: | "The book begins with a vignette of the world's most famous-and most misunderstood-prohibitionist: the hatchet-wielding saloon smasher, Carrie Nation. A deeper investigation finds that she was anything but the Bible-thumping, white, conservative evangelical that she's commonly made-out to be; but rather a populist-progressive equal-rights crusader. Chapter 1 lays bare the shortcomings of the dominant, historical narrative of temperance and prohibitionism as uniquely American developments resulting from a clash of religious and cultural groups. By examining the global history of prohibition, we can shed new light on the American experience. Answering the fundamental question-why prohibition? This book argues that temperance was a global resistance movement against imperialism, subjugation, and the predatory capitalism of a liquor traffic in which political and economic elites profited handsomely from the addiction and misery of the people"-- |
Smashing the liquor machine : a global history of prohibition / [printed text] / Mark Lawrence Schrad . - New York : Oxford University Press, 2021 . - 725 pages. ISBN : 978-0-19-084157-7 Jazyky : English ( eng) | Číslo MDT: | 364.1/332 | | Abstrakt: | "The book begins with a vignette of the world's most famous-and most misunderstood-prohibitionist: the hatchet-wielding saloon smasher, Carrie Nation. A deeper investigation finds that she was anything but the Bible-thumping, white, conservative evangelical that she's commonly made-out to be; but rather a populist-progressive equal-rights crusader. Chapter 1 lays bare the shortcomings of the dominant, historical narrative of temperance and prohibitionism as uniquely American developments resulting from a clash of religious and cultural groups. By examining the global history of prohibition, we can shed new light on the American experience. Answering the fundamental question-why prohibition? This book argues that temperance was a global resistance movement against imperialism, subjugation, and the predatory capitalism of a liquor traffic in which political and economic elites profited handsomely from the addiction and misery of the people"-- |
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