Author: Gilman M. OstranderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Prohibition Movement in California, 1848-1933, by Gilman M. Ostrander
Author: Gilman M. OstranderProhibition Movement in California, 1848-1933
Author: The prohibition movement in California, 1848 - 1933
Author: Gilman M. OstranderThe Prohibition Movement in California, 1848-1933
Author: Gilman Marston OstranderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The situation caused by Prohibition steadily deteriorated. Californians increasingly came to believe that "the cure was worse than the disease." Prohibition didn't reduce drinking but simply made it much more dangerous to life and health. It didn't reduce crime but increased it. Prohibition didn't increase prosperity (except for bootleggers and organized criminals). It didn't improve public morality but directly led to its rapid deterioration. California initially supported Prohibition, but the Noble Experiment had created a Frankenstein. Californians voted over three-to-one for repeal
A History of the Prohibition Movement in California
Author: Wendell E. HarmonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The Politics of Prohibition
Author: Lisa M. F. AndersenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107434432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This book introduces the intrepid temperance advocates who formed America's longest-living minor political party - the Prohibition Party - drawing on the party's history to illuminate how American politics came to exclude minor parties from governance. Lisa M. F. Andersen traces the influence of pressure groups and ballot reforms, arguing that these innovations created a threshold for organization and maintenance that required extraordinary financial and personal resources from parties already lacking in both. More than most other minor parties, the Prohibition Party resisted an encroaching Democratic-Republican stranglehold over governance. When Prohibitionists found themselves excluded from elections, they devised a variety of tactics: they occupied saloons, pressed lawsuits, forged utopian communities, and organized dry consumers to solicit alcohol-free products.
Pathways to Prohibition
Author: Ann-Marie E. SzymanskiPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822331698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
DIVSzymanski uses the Prohibition movement as an example of the challenges facinbg all social reform movements./div
History of the Prohibition Movement in California
Author: Franklin HichbornDomesticating Drink
Author: Catherine Gilbert MurdockPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801870224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The period of prohibition, from 1919 to 1933, marks the fault line between the cultures of Victorian and modern America. In Domesticating Drink, Murdock argues that the debates surrounding alcohol also marked a divide along gender lines. For much of early American history, men generally did the drinking, and women and children were frequently the victims of alcohol-associated violence and abuse. As a result, women stood at the fore of the temperance and prohibition movements and, as Murdock explains, effectively used the fight against drunkenness as a route toward political empowerment and participation. At the same time, respectable women drank at home, in a pattern of moderation at odds with contemporaneous male alcohol abuse. During the 1920s, with federal prohibition a reality, many women began to assert their hard-won sense of freedom by becoming social drinkers in places other than the home. Murdock's study of how this development took place broadens our understanding of the social and cultural history of alcohol and the various issues that surround it. As alcohol continues to spark debate about behaviors, attitudes, and gender roles, Domesticating Drink provides valuable historical context and important lessons for understanding and responding to the evolving use, and abuse, of drink.
California's Spiritual Frontiers
Author: Sandra Sizer FrankielPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520330978
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.