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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lewis, Michael, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prohibition.
Liquor laws.
Liquor industry.
Dispensaries.
Dispensaires > Caroline du Sud > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Distillerie > Caroline du Sud > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Liquor laws > South Carolina > History > 20th century.
Dispensaries > South Carolina > History > 20th century.
Liquor industry > South Carolina > History > 20th century.
Prohibition > South Carolina > History > 20th century.
South Carolina.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The politics of the South Carolina dispensary
  • The economic context of the dispensary
  • The social costs of the dispensary
  • From statewide dispensary to local option
  • Augusta, Aiken County, and North Augusta
  • Liquor in Augusta and Aiken County, 1900-1906
  • The dispensary comes to North Augusta
  • The town and county the dispensary built
  • Augusta's saloon's revived, 1908-1913
  • The South steps back from Prohibition, 1909-1913
  • The coming of a (truly) dry South
  • Conclusion.

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