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Prohibition - History

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Works from the collections

5 works

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    Law, alcohol, and order : perspectives on national prohibition / edited by David E. Kyvig ; sponsored by Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Incorporated.

    | Date: [1985]
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    Ardent spirits : the rise and fall of prohibition / by John Kobler.

    | John Kobler | Date: 1974
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    Sobering up : from temperance to prohibition in antebellum America, 1800-1860 / Ian R. Tyrrell.

    | Ian Tyrrell | Date: 1979
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    Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment : temperance reform, legal culture, and the polity, 1880-1920 / Richard F. Hamm.

    | Hamm, Richard F., 1956- | Date: [1995]
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    The long thirst : prohibition in America, 1920-1933 / Thomas M. Coffey.

    | Coffey, Thomas M., 1921-2000 | Date: 1976,

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United States
Temperance

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