Profits, Power, and Prohibition Sandeep B. Somvanshi

Profits, Power, and Prohibition Sandeep B. SomvanshiThis is the first comprehensive study of America's anti liquor anti drug movement from its origins in the late eighteenth century through the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1933. It examines the role that capitalism played in defining and shaping this reform movement. Rumbarger challenges conventional explanations of the history of this movement and offers compelling counter arguments to explain the movement's historical development. He

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New Books Network (New Books in Popular Culture) interview with Cameron Crookston

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responding to modern challenges in ways that are uniquely Canadian