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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Eighteenth Amendment"”.
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Brewing History: How Local Option and Prohibition Altered the Texas Brewing Industry
… efforts culminated in the instatement of the Eighteenth Amendment in January 1919 and the Volstead Act in October 1919. This thesis details the prohibition issue through an analysis of eight larger, better-funded Texas breweries who used evolving social and political conditions to combat …
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Pathologizing and Criminalizing Intoxication: Addiction, Psychoactive Drugs, and the Ideological Underpinnings of the War on Drugs
… substances. During the first half of the eighteenth century, a period known as the Gin Craze, rising levels of urban drunkenness in England came under the sustained gaze of temperance-minded doctors and churchmen, who used a shared language of contagion, disease, and slavery to …
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Wet Chicago: Prohibition and the Development of the Informal Alcohol Economy
… of how residents increasing opposed the Eighteenth Amendment as a method to remedy the numerous criminal and social disruptions it had caused. By providing an analysis of the larger underground market during the Prohibition-era in Chicago, the dissertation considers the problems …
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Cup of salvation : race, religion, and anti-prohibition in Texas, 1885-1935.
… anti-prohibitionists "wets" to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment banned the alcohol trade in the United States and took effect from 1920 until its repeal thirteen years later in 1933, though many statewide or local prohibition laws began earlier and …