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The Coming of Southern Prohibition : The Dispensary System and the Battle over Liquor in South Carolina, 1907-1915 /

In The Coming of Southern Prohibition, Michael Lewis examines the rise and fall of South Carolina's state-run liquor dispensary system from its emergence in the 1890s until statewide prohibition in 1915. The dispensary system, requiring government-owned outlets to bottle and sell all alcohol, b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lewis, Michael, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In The Coming of Southern Prohibition, Michael Lewis examines the rise and fall of South Carolina's state-run liquor dispensary system from its emergence in the 1890s until statewide prohibition in 1915. The dispensary system, requiring government-owned outlets to bottle and sell all alcohol, began as a way to both avoid prohibition and enrich governmental coffers. In this revealing study, Lewis offers a more complete rendering of South Carolina's path to universal prohibition and thus sharpens our understanding of historical southern attitudes towards race, religion, and alcohol.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9780807162996