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Mark Lawrence Schrad, "Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition" (Oxford UP, 2021)

New Books in World Affairs

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How to Be Wrong - A Comparative History

The book concludes with a sort of three a big picture takeaways from this comparative history. Im, i wondered if you could talk a little bit about them. Ah, the part of it is that we've o it highlights a some of the shortcomings in the way that we approach history. A, and so it really does, a, it is important a sort of opening up the tor the broader scope of knowledge, just american history, but global history as well.

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