Smashing The Liquor Machine 

Historical | Mark Lawrence Schrad | Oxford University Press

This book turns the history of the temperance movement on its head. Instead of a movement of religious fanatics imposing their beliefs on the marginalised, we discover a progressive movement involving and advocating for those groups. It is engaging while marshalling evidence for a movement that included colonised and marginalised people from around the globe. A fight for the very survival of communities against unprincipled greed of the liquor industry, the temperance movement included world leaders, health experts and was integrally connected to women’s suffrage and abolition of slavery. A good read. (Reviewed by Lt-Colonel Ian Hutson)