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Language: en
Pages: 185
Pages: 185
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-14 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press
On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment took effect in the United States, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, use, or importation of alcoholic beverages. M
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
It was a whiskey-soaked age that was supposed to be dry. Prohibition may have been the law of the land, but hte Chesapeake Bay country was awash in a sea of ill
Language: en
Pages: 182
Pages: 182
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Great Lakes Books
Using police and court records, newspaper accounts and interviews, this work is a history of the prohibition era, when from 1920 to 1933 all alcoholic beveridge
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Type: BOOK - Published: 1959 - Publisher: New York : Rinehart
Language: en
Pages: 208
Pages: 208
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-18 - Publisher: McFarland
In 1920, the 18th Amendment made the production, transportation and sale of alcohol not merely illegal—it was unconstitutional. Yet no legislation could end t