Smashing the Liquor Machine

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Smashing the Liquor Machine is written by Mark Lawrence Schrad and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190841591 (ISBN 10) and 9780190841591 (ISBN 13).

This is a unique retelling of the history of temperance and prohibition. Rather than focusing on white, rural, conservative American bible-thumpers, Mark Lawrence Schrad contends that the temperance movement was a progressive, international, and revolutionary movement of oppressed-peoples fighting the liquor traffic, through which states and rich capitalists combined to get the lower classes addicted to drink for profit. Schrad shows that the temperance movement was in fact a global pro-justice movement that had an impact in nearly every major country in the world, both developing and developed.