Lisa M. F. Andersen

The Politics of Prohibition

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Produktbeschreibung

Draws on the history of America's longest-living minor political party - the Prohibition Party - to illuminate how American politics came to exclude minor parties from governance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781316615928
• ISBN-10: 1316615928
• Artikelnr.: 44678219

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.