temperance

Chronicles the history of Prohibition in the United States, a period from 1920 to 1933 during which it was illegal to sell or drink alcohol, discussing how what began as a movement to heal social ills, became a burden to ordinary citizens and a boon to criminals.

Discusses temperance movements in the United States, and the impact that the prohibition of alcohol had on the nation.

A biography of the temperance leader and women's rights advocate who spent her life working to improve social conditions for women.

A short study of the Temperance Movement of the early twentieth century, examining efforts to pass anti-liquor laws and Prohibition.

Presents a radical approach to understanding and harnessing the emotional forces that drive addictions, describing the factors all addictions share and suggesting a new way of treating the addict's disease.

This book explores the history of Prohibition (1920-1933), from the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Twenty-First Amendment that would repeal the Eighteenth Amendment.

This book describes the Prohibition Era (1920-1933), a period when the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution forbade Americans from manufacturing, selling, or transporting alcoholic beverages.

Analyzes American drinking practices and the development of the liquor industry that traces the failures and successes of the reform attempts.

Presents a study of the temperance movement, focusing on the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the suffrage movement, identifying the campaigns as separate, but equally important expressions of early feminism, and crucial to later demands by women for equal rights and protection under the law.