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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172246203321

Autore

Szymanski Ann-Marie E. <1967->

Titolo

Pathways to prohibition : radicals, moderates, and social movement outcomes / / Ann-Marie E. Szymanski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2003

ISBN

9786612921025

9781282921023

1282921029

9780822385301

0822385309

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Disciplina

363.4/1/0973

363.410973

Soggetti

Prohibition - United States - History

Temperance - United States - History

Social movements - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Political strategy and social movement outcomes -- Churches, lodges, and dry organizing -- Modular collective action in a Federalist system -- Legislative supremacy and the definition of movement goals -- Political alignments, party systems, and prohibition -- The dynamics of local gradualism in the states -- Turning moderates into radicals -- Local gradualism and American social movements.

Sommario/riassunto

Szymanski uses the Prohibition movement as an example of the challenges facinbg all social reform movements.