Mark Lawrence Schrad, "Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Conservative Evangelicals in the United States
Conventional wisdom inin the united states has been, for a long time that this was through this conservative evangelical movement. A friend of mine had just finished her dissertation in in mexico. She focused her entire dissertation on searching for, essentially american missionaries as the explanation for this outcome. And she found maybe like 20 of em in the entire country. There weren't a whole lot, and certainly not enough to sort of o change the course of ino, sorto institution ofofmexico. So i borrowed from the americans. The idea that we know a lot about ourselves and our own tory, ah, and just comlex said, just cind of put
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