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We are what we drink : the temperance battle in Minnesota /

"Sabine N. Meyer eschews the generalities of other temperance histories to provide a close-grained story about the connections between alcohol consumption and identity in the upper Midwest. Meyer examines the ever-shifting ways that ethnicity, gender, class, religion, and place interacted with...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meyer, Sabine N., 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. "Westward the Jug of Empire": The Emergence of a Temperance Movement in Minnesota (1819-1865); 2. Organizing into Blocs: The Fight for or against Personal Liberty (1866-1887); 3. "Talking against a Stonewall": The High License Consensus (1888-1897); 4. "Putting on the Lid": The Anti-Saloon League and Its Impact on the Dry Movement (1898-1915); 5. Equating Temperance with Patriotism: The Great War and the Liquor Question (1916-1919); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.