TY - JOUR
AB - Book Reviews 591 Bootleggers and Borders: The Paradox of Prohi - officials amid persistent liquor consumption bition on a Canada-U.S. Borderland. By Ste- eroded American support for Prohibition by phen T. Moore. (Lincoln: University of N - e the late 1920s and confirmed Canadian views braska Press, 2014. xxiv, 239 pp. $40.00.) that government regulation of liquor was pref- erable. The Royal Commission investigation Stephen T. Moore provides an intriguing of 1926–1927, which documented payments study of Prohibition in the Pacific Northwest to provincial and federal Canadian officials by and its impact on U.S.-Canadian relations. distillers who shipped liquor into the United His intent is not to examine prohibition’s States, turned British Columbians against the roots but rather its effect on law enforcement liquor industry. and the populations on each side of th-e bor Moore emphasizes Prohibition’s impact on der. He asserts that the noble experiment was the Pacific Northwest rather than focusing on implemented differently in this geographically the sources of the liquor ban, though he makes isolated region—British Columbia opted for passing reference to saloons as workingmen’s government control of liquor in 1920—and clubs and characterizes supporters of Prohibi- that this provided a blueprint for post- -Prohi 
TI - Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jav426
DA - 2015-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/staging-the-blues-from-tent-shows-to-tourism-koOIDlx4ds
SP - 591
EP - 592
VL - 102
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -