Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction (Record no. 51295)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780190280109
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Classification number 364.17309 ROB
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Personal name Rorabaugh, W. J.
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Title Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford University Press
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2020
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Extent 140
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Summary, etc Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Bolstered by the Volstead Act, this amendment made Prohibition law: alcohol could no longer be produced, imported, transported, or sold. This bizarre episode is often humorously recalled, frequently satirized, and usually condemned. The more interesting questions, however, are how and why Prohibition came about, how Prohibition worked (and failed to work), and how Prohibition gave way to strict governmental regulation of alcohol.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social sciences
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social pathology
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