Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920 (Studies in Legal History) - Tapa blanda

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Hamm, Richard F

 
9780807844939: Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920 (Studies in Legal History)
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ISBN 10: 0807844934 ISBN 13: 9780807844939
Editorial: University of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions, 2009

Sinopsis

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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Richard F. Hamm is assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Albany.

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University of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0807844934
ISBN 13 
9780807844939
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Número de páginas
352
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9780807821817: Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920 (Studies in Legal History)

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ISBN 10:  0807821810 ISBN 13:  9780807821817
Editorial: The University of North Carolina..., 1995
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