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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- "Distilled damnation" : temperance before 1880
- "It is not enough that the church should be sober" : drying up the South, 1880-1915
- "Why don't he give his attention to saving sinners?" : prohibition and politics
- "But what seek those dark ballots?" : prohibition and race
- "Let the cowards vote as they will, I'm for prohibition still" : prohibition and the southern cult of honor
- "Some of our best preachers part their hair in the middle" : prohibition and gender
- Conclusion.