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"The book begins with a vignette of the world's most famous-and most misunderstood-prohibitionist: the hatchet-wielding saloon smasher, Carrie Nation. A deeper investigation finds that she was anything but the Bible-thumping, white, conservative evangelical that she's commonly made-out to be; but rather a populist-progressive equal-rights crusader. Chapter 1 lays bare the shortcomings of the dominant, historical narrative of temperance and prohibitionism as uniquely American developments resulting from a clash of religious and cultural groups. By examining the global history of prohibition, we can shed new light on the American experience. Answering the fundamental question-why prohibition? This book argues that temperance was a global resistance movement against imperialism, subjugation, and the predatory capitalism of a liquor traffic in which political and economic elites profited handsomely from the addiction and misery of the people"--

In this work, Mark Lawrence Schrad looks on an oddity of modern history - the broad diffusion of temperance legislation in the early 20th century - to make a broad argument about how bad policy ideas achieve international success.

AbstractThe touchstone event in the history of alcohol control policy—both in the United States and globally—has unquestionably been the American experiment with alcohol prohibition. Yet in our haste to dismiss this failed policy as the product of misguided temperance zealotry, we risk overlooking a vast historical literature of objective liquor‐control studies that are surprisingly similar to more modern studies of policy effectiveness. This article explores this largely undiscovered liquor‐control literature, and places it into the context of the long history of alcohol‐control studies. The article concludes that not only is this early liquor‐control literature an important part of the heritage of the policy‐studies discipline, but also a potentially valuable resource for future historical and longitudinal studies into alcohol and alcohol‐control issues.

Even following the years of economic and demographic crisis of the 1990s, the Russian Federation still ranks among the hardest drinking countries on earth, with alarming consequences for public health. In 2009, then‐president Dmitry Medvedev initiated the most ambitious campaign against drunkenness since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Based on preliminary evidence from official and unofficial sources, this article attempts an early consideration of the effectiveness of Russia's new alcohol‐control policies. Alcohol‐related mortality statistics show continued improvement since the beginning of the campaign, while alcohol consumption statistics are more ambiguous, casting doubt as to the effectiveness of the policies begun in 2009.

AbstractInformation and communication technology (ICT) programs like Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote have become the norm for large university lecture classes, but their record in terms of student engagement and active learning is mixed at best. Here, the author presents the merits of a "populist" lecture style that takes full advantage of the variety of features available from the latest generation of ICT programs. Based on visual variety, audio and visual sound bites, and the incorporation of humor and pop-cultural references, this populist approach not only facilitates greater student attention and engagement with the class materials, but also offers unmatched opportunities for extending student learning beyond the confines of the large lecture hall.