Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
by
Richard F. Hamm
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Richard Hamm examines prohibitionists' struggle for reform from the late nineteenth century to their great victory in securing passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. Because the prohibition movement was a quintessential reform effort, Hamm uses it as a case study to advance a general theory about the...