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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coker, Joe L., 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007.
Colección:Religion in the South.
Temas:
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.