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The count depends on the chapter's threshold for what constitutes national prohibition and excludes narrower local or partial controls.
Mark Lawrence Schrad defines national prohibition comparatively and identifies eleven countries that adopted qualifying nationwide alcohol prohibitions, placing the United States within an international reform network rather than treating it as an isolated experiment.
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Myth 8 — Defining the global prohibition wave
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