Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition free ebook download.

Home : Book details

Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition free ebook download

Category:
History

Views: 461
Likes: 67

Catalogue

Author(s):	Mark Lawrence Schrad

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0190841575
Pages:	752	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
Uploader:	maveriks	Upload Date:	6/26/2021 11:12:09 AM

To download click on link in the Links Table below

Description: Click to see full description

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 words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history.

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, Thoms Masaryk, Kemal Atatrk, 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.

Unlike many traditional "dry" histories, Smashing the Liquor Machine gives voice to minority and subaltern figures who resisted the global liquor industry, and further highlights that the impulses that led to the temperance movement were far more progressive and variegated than American readers have
been led to believe.

Links Table

	Title	Link	Password	Size (MB)	Thank to	Inform Admin
3012962	Book	https://nitro.download/view/A48BEB5B23ED...		0.00	maveriks

Tags: Global History Liquor Machine Prohibition Smashing

Title	Link	Password	Size	Reason

Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books:

Comments

New comment: