>Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 18:02:17 -0800
>From: Ron Roizen <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject:
>        Re: US Prohibition 1920
>  Date:
>        Thu, 05 Feb 1998 17:53:44 -0800
>  From:
>        Ron Roizen <[log in to unmask]>
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>Joseph R. Gusfield's book, *Symbolic Crusade* (1963), presents an
>intriguing theoretical approach to U.S. national prohibition--focussing
>in particular on its nativist and "status politics" aspects.  Jack
>Blocker's book, *American Temperance Movements* (1989), fits U.S.
>prohibition into a series of five recurring historical cylcles--each
>cycle moving from suasion to coercion.  Other works have focussed on the
>political level of analysis (e.g. Kerr's *Organized for Reform*, 1985).
>Harry Levine's celebrated paper, ("The Discovery of Addiction: Changing
>Conceptions of Habitual Drunkenness in America," J. Studies on Alcohol
>39:143-174, 1978) evaluated temperance ideology in a Foucaultian idiom.
>Happy reading!
>--
>Ron Roizen
>Wallace, Idaho
>