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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky
2007.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Religion in the South. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31657886*spi |
| Sumario: | 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 antebellum period. Viewed with suspicion by Southerners because of its close connection to the antislavery movement, prohibition sentiment remained relatively weak in the antebellum South. In the decades following the Civil War, however, southern evangelicals embraced the movement with unprecedented fervor. |
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| Descripción Física: | x, 329 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 303-321) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780813172804 9780813136981 |
