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Moonshiners and prohibitionists : the battle over alcohol in southern Appalachia /
Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alcohol-an integral part of daily life for many Appalach...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2011.
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| Colección: | New directions in southern history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The beginnings of antialcohol reform, 1790-1860
- "This country improves in cultivation, wickedness, mills, and still" : distilling and drinking during the antebellum period
- Select men of sober and industrious habits : alcohol reform and social conflict during the late antebellum period
- The golden age of moonshining, 1861-1876
- "Is there any way to get at the distillers?" : the fall and rise of the moonshiners, 1861-1868
- "They tax us and give us negro civil rights" : moonshiner violence and the politics of federal liquor taxation, 1868-1876
- The road to prohibition, 1870-1908
- Civilization requires prohibition : the beginning of the end for the moonshiners, 1870-1882
- "These big-boned, semi-barbarian people" : creation of the myth of violent Appalachia and its consequences, 1878-1890
- "Afloat on the tide of improvement" : the uplift movement and rise of prohibition sentiment in rural communities, 1885-1900
- "Wilt thou send the revenues down upon the distillers" : a political history of prohibition, 1882-1908.