>Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 18:02:17 -0800 >From: Ron Roizen <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: David Fahey <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: (no subject) > >Subject: > Re: US Prohibition 1920 > Date: > Thu, 05 Feb 1998 17:53:44 -0800 > From: > Ron Roizen <[log in to unmask]> > To: > [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] > > >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 >