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Book The Politics of Prohibition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa M. F. Andersen
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-09-09
  • ISBN : 1107029376
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book The Politics of Prohibition written by Lisa M. F. Andersen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the history of America's longest-living minor political party - the Prohibition Party - to illuminate how American politics came to exclude minor parties from governance.

Book Repealing National Prohibition

Download or read book Repealing National Prohibition written by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the political reaction against the 18th Amendment, a response that led to its reversal 14 years later by the 21st Amendment. This work uses archival evidence to examine the liquor ban and to draw attention to the bi-partisan movement led by the Association Against Prohibition Amendment.

Book The Dry Years

    Book Details:
  • Author : Norman H. Clark
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2011-07-01
  • ISBN : 0295800011
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Dry Years written by Norman H. Clark and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the event of its publication in 1965, Murray Morgan wrote, The Dry Years, which might be subtitled �The Fall and Rise of John Barleycorn,� is a delightful blend of scholarship, narrative exposition and wit. ...Clark is knowing and acid about alcohol as a class problem. he points out that the drys were usually led by upperclass types whose peers would derive benefit by better habits in the working class. He does not, however, fall into the trap of attributing the attitudes of the reformers to hypocrisy. The drys were awash with sincerity. ...It is one of the many merits of this delightful book that Norman Clark does not rub our noses in the fact that though times change, problems remain. In this substantially updated edition of the classic story of a region�s experience with Prohibition, Norman Clark reviews to the present the political history of liquor control in Washington State, and issue taken seriously in the state and the nation as those of black slavery, wage slavery, and child welfare. He traces the effect of social change upon liquor morality through nearly two hundred years of efforts to make the use of alcohol compatible with the American view of social progress.

Book Enforcement of the Prohibition Laws

Download or read book Enforcement of the Prohibition Laws written by United States. Wickersham Commission and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alcohol and Public Policy

Download or read book Alcohol and Public Policy written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1981-02-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Actions of the Board of Education for

Download or read book Annual Report of the Actions of the Board of Education for written by District of Columbia. Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Ohio Law

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  • Author : Michael Les Benedict
  • Publisher : Ohio University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0821415468
  • Pages : 959 pages

Download or read book The History of Ohio Law written by Michael Les Benedict and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Two-Volume The History of Ohio Law, distinguished legal historians, practicing Ohio attorneys, and judges present the history of Ohio law and the interaction between law and society in the state. The first history of Ohio law in nearly seventy years - and the most comprehensive compilation of essays on any state's law - its twenty-two topics range from the history of Ohio's constitutional conventions and legal institutions to the history of civil procedure, evidence, land use, civil liberties, and utility regulation. The essays describe Ohio's legal institutions, legal procedures, and the substance of Ohio law as it has changed over time. institutions have affected Ohio law and how the law has affected them. The essays provide important information to practitioners and offer attorneys, legal scholars, historians, and the public a broad understanding of the relationship between law and society in Ohio. intersections between law and race, gender, and labor. Insightful essays also discuss the development of Ohio's legal literature, the impact of federal courts, and Ohio's most important contributions to American constitutional development. Written by twenty-two leading lawyers and historians, The History of Ohio Law will be the indispensable reference and invaluable first source for learning about law and society in Ohio.

Book The American Issue

Download or read book The American Issue written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Illusion

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  • Author : Herbert Asbury
  • Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
  • Release : 2018-07-18
  • ISBN : 0486832635
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book The Great Illusion written by Herbert Asbury and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recommended." — Library Journal. Written by the bestselling author of The Gangs of New York, this wide-ranging survey of the Prohibition era is populated by bootleggers, gangsters, and corrupt police as well as such reformers as Frances E. Willard.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Digest

Download or read book Congressional Digest written by Alice Gram and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each issue is devoted to a controversial issue before the Congress.

Book Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin

Download or read book Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alcohol  Reform and Society

Download or read book Alcohol Reform and Society written by Jack S. Blocker Jr. and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1979-10-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Blocker's collection of nine essays represents one of the most impressive moves toward a comprehensive examination of the liquor issue. The collection attempts to evaluate the role of alcohol in society, examine the origins of the temperance and prohibition movements, and analyze the organized movement for repeal.

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1514 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

Download or read book The Commercial and Financial Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: