Johan Persson has read the book “Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition” which describes a global history of temperance in the struggle for freedom.
Johan shares the historic lessons that can be learned from this “exciting and captivating story”. The book is a scientific project from which a worldwide movement emerges that is closely intertwined with the other major progressive political projects of the 19th century: abolitionism, the suffrage movement, anti-imperialism, democratic nationalism, liberalism and socialism. A movement that saw itself as a freedom movement in the fight against powerful economic interests.
