The Politics of Prohibition

American Governance and the Prohibition Party, 1869-1933

AvLisa M. F. Andersen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-09-09
Mått:156 x 236 x 22 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:323
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107029378

Utforska kategorier

Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Lisa M. F. Andersen is Assistant Professor of History and Liberal Arts at the Juilliard School, New York.

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'Lisa M. F. Andersen's thoughtfully conceived and gracefully executed study adds to a growing body of historical analysis that explains how Americans' political choices have become ever more restricted, while deliberation over policy has become less common and less inclusive. In addition, she shows why dedicated prohibitionists rejected the Eighteenth Amendment and elucidates the complex relationship between women activists and the first national party to declare for woman suffrage. The Politics of Prohibition draws cogent lessons for Americans today from a skilful anatomy of political failure.' Jack Blocker, Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario, and Past President of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Building a Constituency: 1. Temperance, prohibition, and a party; 2. Disorderly conduct in the emancipation era; 3. Women's peculiar partisanship; Part II. The Minor Party Problem: 4. 'Collateral consequences' of the 1884 election; 5. Writing prohibition into the soil; 6. Strenuous bodies; Part III. Partisanship, Policy, and Protest Votes: 7. Opposing the prohibition amendment; Epilogue.