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Liquor in the land of the lost cause : southern white evangelicals and the prohibition movement /
The temperance movement first appeared in America in the 1820s as an outgrowth of the same evangelical fervor that fostered a wide range of reform campaigns and benevolence societies. Like many of these movements, temperance was confined primarily to the northeastern United States during the antebel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Religion in the South.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The temperance movement first appeared in America in the 1820s as an outgrowth of the same evangelical fervor that fostered a wide range of reform campaigns and benevolence societies. Like many of these movements, temperance was confined primarily to the northeastern United States during the antebellum period. Viewed with suspicion by Southerners because of its close connection to the antislavery movement, prohibition sentiment remained relatively weak in the antebellum South. In the decades following the Civil War, however, southern evangelicals embraced the movement with unprecedented fervor. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-321) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813172804 0813172802 9780813136981 0813136989 0813134722 9780813134727 1283233223 9781283233224 9786613233226 6613233226 |