Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920 - Brossura

Libro 8 di 49: Studies in Legal History

Hamm, Richard F

 
9780807844939: Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
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ISBN 10: 0807844934 ISBN 13: 9780807844939
Casa editrice: University of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions, 2009

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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 interaction between reformers and the state during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Most scholarship on prohibition focuses on its social context, but Hamm explores how the regulation of commerce and the federal tax structure molded the drys' crusade. Federalism gave the drys a restricted setting--individual states--as a proving ground for their proposals. But federal policies precipitated a series of crises in the states that the drys strove to overcome. According to Hamm, interaction with the federal government system helped to reshape prohibitionists' legal culture--that is, their ideas about what law was and how it could be used.

Originally published in 1995.

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"Well researched and lucidly written, Hamm's study is also notable for deftly situating temperance and prohibition in relation to other progressive era reforms". -- Choice

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Editore
University of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0807844934
ISBN 13 
9780807844939
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
352
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780807821817: Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0807821810 ISBN 13:  9780807821817
Casa editrice: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1995
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