TY - JOUR
AU - Campbell, Robert A.
AB - Comparative/World 1089 as an era featuring the violent suppression of popular MARK LAWRENCE SCHRAD. The Political Power of Bad movements and the subversion of democratic processes Ideas: Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition through massive electoral corruption, a form of elite Wave. New York: Oxford University Press. 2010. Pp. ix, 302. $65.00. domination different in structure but not social or po- litical result when compared to the early years of the Having just finished reading Daniel Okrent’s Last Call: U.S. colonial state. The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2010), I was looking Then there are the book’s many discoveries. While forward to another book on prohibition. Both Okrent McCoy necessarily retells many known histories in writ- and Mark L. Schrad share a dislike of the dry cause. Yet ing a work of this scale, who knew that Manuel Quezon, Okrent’s work is a finely nuanced political history of first president of the Philippine Commonwealth, was an American prohibition that accepts that some (but not undercover operative for the Philippine Constabulary much) good came of the dry years. Schrad’s impatience in the early twentieth century? Or that surveillance with prohibition is obvious and immediate. To him, “the methods developed to 
TI - Mark Lawrence SchradThe Political Power of Bad Ideas: Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave. New York: Oxford University Press. 2010. Pp. ix, 302. $65.00
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr.116.4.1089
DA - 2011-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/mark-lawrence-schradthe-political-power-of-bad-ideas-networks-XAv52weNhM
SP - 1089
EP - 1090
VL - 116
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -