... the enemy rather than traded for. The chapter explains that one of the consequences of concluding the tea prohibition was the sale of the East India Company's tea in Charleston. In 1776 and 1777, the East India Company's tea helped Patriots pay for the war. The chapter highlights how tea prices rose even...

... grain requisitioning Lenin Vladimir samogon “survivals theory” Trotsky Leon Bukharin Nikolay Communist Party of the Soviet Union KPSS New Economic Policy NEP Society for the Struggle with Alcoholism OBSA Stalin Josef vodka Tsarist Russia the Bolsheviks 1917 Revolution prohibition Lenin...

... the crumbling of the West Side Jewish world. Cutler Irving History of the Jews Meites Jewish gangsters Jews of Chicago The Cutler Joker Is Wild The Cohn Lewis Joe E Meites H L Miller Max O’Banion Dean Prohibition Anixter Julius “Lovin’ Putty ” Block Alan Chicago Jews Dempsey Jack East Side West...

... more stringent forms of drug control. This books reveals that Afghan rulers adopted the prohibition of drugs to foster better diplomatic relations with the US to help build the Afghan state, but at the expense of Afghans who were increasingly dependent on the drug trade. The illicit drug trade emerged...

... heavily in economic development, in exchange for Afghanistan prohibiting drugs in 1945. Although the prohibition failed, it was the first instance of Afghanistan using drug control as a means improving diplomatic channels to help build the Afghan state. Amanullah Khan France Ghulam Nabi Ala heroin...

... development aid and assistance to the Afghan government. alternatives to opium production Badakhshan production of drugs rural population Afghan 1944 1945 Opium Prohibition Afghanistan 1953 Opium Protocol UN 1957 1958 Opium Prohibition Afghanistan Daud Khan Mohammad and government of Mansfield David...

... rallies, parades, and ceremonies. It exposes the widespread practice of alcohol consumption and the horrific consequences of prohibitions on drinking during duty hours on the conquered peoples. While habitual drunkenness on duty by SS and policemen within the “old Reich” transgressed organizational norms...

... founded the industry after Prohibition—1933 in the United States and 1927 in Ontario—had to overcome natural obstacles such as subzero cold in winter and high humidity in the summer that favored diseases that were devastating to grapevines. Enologists and viticulturists at Eastern research stations began...

...The onset of World War I brought prohibition to alcohol but an explosion of tobacco use on the front lines, with even government sponsored tobacco collection drives, yet the Bolshevik Revolution, carried the downfall of the tobacco queens and ushered into power a new state with its own conflicted...

... Brothers Winery, taught alcohol beverage management at Washington State University and, as a member of the National Speakers Association, lectured widely on alcohol-related subjects including Neo-Prohibitionism. In January 1987, Ford started The Moderation Reader, a four-page protest paper...

.... For various historical and cultural reasons, including the Koranic prohibition on marriage outside the faith for Muslim women, most Central Asian European unions featured a Central Asian man and a European woman. The chapter highlights the importance of intermarriages between Asians and Europeans in Central...

...This chapter details alcohol consumption in noir. The hard-boiled detective novel came into being during the raucous last years of Prohibition, hence the genre is soaked in whiskey, sinfulness, and the dark. The detective in Chandler, Hammett, and their successors is a loner who may not have...

...This chapter tells the story of Davey Miller, a gangster with a particular and romanticized standing. He was Jewish Chicago’s highest-profile figure in the citywide gangster confederation that emerged in the early years of Prohibition, and he was the smiling criminal face of the gangs that first...

...This chapter discusses the Prohibition in the United States and Canada. In the United States, concern about the drinking of hard liquor led to the first state prohibitory law in Maine in 1851, which forbade the sale or manufacture of intoxicants in the state. The temperance movement gradually came...

... prohibition Ligachev Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… . ​The essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies...

...This chapter considers the impact of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on the nuclear nonproliferation regime. It also cites the importance of the United States and allied leadership in understanding regime adherence. The United States has been able to persuade reluctant adherents...

...This chapter discusses the prohibition of tea as some form of conformity. It explains how the prioritization of the Continental Association as public rhetoric went hand-in-hand with censoring the press and policing the mail. Conformity to the sumptuary provisions of the Association was an important...