Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780190841577 |
ISBN 10 | 0190841575 |
Author | Assistant Professor of Political Science Mark Lawrence Schrad |
Language | English |
Book Description | This is a unique retelling of the history of temperance and prohibition. Rather than focusing on white, rural, conservative American bible-thumpers, Mark Lawrence Schrad contends that the temperance movement was a progressive, international, and revo |
About the Author | Mark Lawrence Schrad is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Villanova University. He is the author of The Political Power of Bad Ideas: Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. His most recent book: Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State (2014) has gone through two editions and has been translated into Polish, Slovak, Lithuanian, and Chinese. Read more |
Publication Date | 2021-09-10 |
Number of Pages | 752 pages |
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition