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As public relations woman Temple Barr tracks a killer at a striptease convention, Midnight Louie, Temple's cat, tries to prevent fading film star Savannah Ashleigh and her purebred Persian from becoming the next victims.
Author : Carole Nelson Douglas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 1994-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812516838
As public relations woman Temple Barr tracks a killer at a striptease convention, Midnight Louie, Temple's cat, tries to prevent fading film star Savannah Ashleigh and her purebred Persian from becoming the next victims.
Author : Tarini Prasad Sinha
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Drinking of alcoholic beverages
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Author : Fred Arthur McKenzie
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Page : 218 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Immortalism
ISBN : 9780575004023
Author :
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Page : 194 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Armenian question
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Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Bartenders
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Armenia
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Author : Ramananda Chatterjee
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Page : 858 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic journals
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Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".
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Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Restaurants
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Author : Mark Lawrence Schrad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 0190841575
When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, gin runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American event.Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global wave of prohibition laws that occurred around the same time. Schrad's counterintuitiveglobal history of prohibition looks at the anti-alcohol movement around the globe through the experiences of pro-temperance leaders like Thomas Masaryk, founder of Czechoslovakia, Vladimir Lenin, Leo Tolstoy, and anti-colonial activists in India. Schrad argues that temperance wasn't "Americanexceptionalism" at all, but rather one of the most broad-based and successful transnational social movements of the modern era. In fact, Schrad offers a fundamental re-appraisal of this colorful era to reveal that temperance forces frequently aligned with progressivism, social justice, liberalself-determination, democratic socialism, labor rights, women's rights, and indigenous rights. By placing the temperance movement in a deep global context, he forces us to fundamentally rethink all that we think we know about the movement. Rather than a motley collection of puritanical Americanevangelicals, the global temperance movement advocated communal self-protection against the corrupt and predatory "liquor machine" that had become exceedingly rich off the misery and addictions of the poor around the world, from the slums of South Asia to central Europe to the Indian reservations ofthe American west.Unlike many traditional "dry" histories, Smashing the Liquor Machine gives voice to minority and subaltern figures who resisted the global liquor industry, and further highlights that the impulses that led to the temperance movement were far more progressive and variegated than American readers havebeen led to believe.