Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement

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As an interpretation of the temperance movement, the book is an unqualified success . . . in an area of study that has been characterized by either glib statements about the social bases of movements or fixation on phenomena of goal displacement and the iron law of oligarchy, this study represents a signal contribution.-American Journal of Sociology
"As an interpretation of the temperance movement, the book is an unqualified success . . . in an area of study that has been characterized by either glib statements about the social bases of movements or fixation on phenomena of goal displacement and the iron law of oligarchy, this study represents a signal contribution."-American Journal of Sociology

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sfield /f Joseph /i R.