Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition 1st edition

Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition 1st edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190841577,0190841575,9780190841591, 0190841591

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190841591
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780190841591
• Author: Mark Lawrence Schrad

Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon. Schrad’s pathbreaking history of prohibition looks at the anti-alcohol movement around the globe through the experiences of pro-temperance leaders like Vladimir Lenin, Leo Tolstoy, Thomás Masaryk, Kemal Atatürk, Mahatma Gandhi, and anti-colonial activists across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Schrad argues that temperance wasn’t “American exceptionalism” at all, but rather one of the most broad-based and successful transnational social movements of the modern era. In fact, Schrad offers a fundamental re-appraisal of this colorful era to reveal that temperance forces frequently aligned with progressivism, social justice, liberal self-determination, democratic socialism, labor rights, women’s rights, and indigenous rights. Placing the temperance movement in a deep global context, forces us to fundamentally rethink its role in opposing colonial exploitation throughout American history as well. Prohibitionism united Native American chiefs like Little Turtle and Black Hawk; African-American leaders Frederick Douglass, Ida Wells, and Booker T. Washington; suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Frances Willard; progressives from William Lloyd Garrison to William Jennings Bryan; writers F.E.W. Harper and Upton Sinclair, and even American presidents from Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Progressives rather than puritans, the global temperance movement advocated communal self-protection against the corrupt and predatory “liquor machine” that had become exceedingly rich off the misery and addictions of the poor around the world, from the slums of South Asia to the beerhalls of Central Europe to the Native American reservations of the United States.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction-Everything You Know About Prohibition Is Wrong

Part I: The Continental Empires
Chapter 2: Two Tolstoys and a Lenin-Temperance and Prohibition in Russia
Chapter 3: The Temperance Internationale-Social Democrats Against the Liquor Machine in Sweden and Belgium
Chapter 4: Temperance, Liberalism, and Nationalism in the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires

Part II: The British Empire
Chapter 5: Temperance and Self-Determination in the British Isles
Chapter 6: Black Man’s Burden, White Man’s Liquor in Southern Africa
Chapter 7: Gandhi, Indian Nationalism, and Temperance Resistance Against the Raj
Chapter 8: The Dry Man of Europe-Ottoman Prohibition Against British Domination

Part III: The United States
Chapter 9: First Peoples, First Prohibitionists
Chapter 10: Liquor and the Ethnic Cleansing of North America
Chapter 11: “All Great Reforms Go Together”-Temperance and Abolitionism
Chapter 12: The Empire Club Strikes Back
Chapter 13: A Tale of Two Franceses-Temperance and Suffragism in the United States
Chapter 14: The Progressive Soul of American Prohibition
Chapter 15: Prohibition Against American Imperialism
Chapter 16: A People’s History of American Prohibition
Chapter 17: Conclusion-Where Did We Go Wrong?

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