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The War on Alcohol - Lisa McGirr

The War on Alcohol

Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

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Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2015
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-06695-1 (ISBN)
CHF 39,95 inkl. MwSt
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A ground-breaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state.
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers and speakeasies. Now Lisa McGirr dismantles this myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government and the genesis of America’s contemporary penal state.

Lisa McGirr is Professor of History at Harvard University, where she specializes in the history of the twentieth-century United States. Her research and teaching interests bridge the fields of social and political history and focus on collective action, state building, reform movements, and politics. Her most recent book, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State, won acclaim for excavating the significant but neglected state-building legacies of national Prohibition. Her award-winning first book, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, investigated the social and regional basis of grassroots conservative politics in the post–World War II United States. She teaches a wide variety of courses on the history of the United States in the twentieth century.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.1.2016
Zusatzinfo 8 pages of illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 165 x 244 mm
Gewicht 564 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-393-06695-9 / 0393066959
ISBN-13 978-0-393-06695-1 / 9780393066951
Zustand Neuware
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