Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment : temperance reform, legal culture, and the polity, 1880-1920 /

Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment : temperance reform, legal culture, and the polity, 1880-1920 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hamm, Richard F., author.
Imprint:	©1995 Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1995]
Description:	1 online resource (x, 341 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	UNC Press enduring editions Studies in legal history UNC Press enduring editions. Studies in legal history.
Subject:	United States. -- Constitution. -- 18th Amendment -- History. Constitution (United States) Prohibition -- United States -- History. Liquor laws -- United States -- History. Temperance -- United States -- History. Liquor laws. Prohibition. Temperance. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11101882

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Varying Form of Title:	Temperance reform, legal culture, and the polity, 1880-1920
ISBN:	0585022925 9780585022925 0807861871 9780807861875 9780807838006 0807838004 0807821810 9780807821817 0807844934 9780807844939
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-336) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record; online resource viewed September 15, 2016.
Summary:	Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920.
Awards:	Society for History in the Federal Government Henry Adams Prize, 1996.
Other form:	Print version: Hamm, Richard F. Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995 0807821810

Table of Contents:

Radical prohibition movement and the liquor industry
Liquor and interstate commerce: court and Congress
Federal liquor tax and the radical prohibitionists
Transformation of prohibitionist means
Liquor tax and the pragmatic prohibitionists
Interstate commerce, pragmatic prohibitionists, and federal power in the Progressive Era
Commerce, pragmatic prohibitionists, and Congress
Dry nation.