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Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause
Joe L. Coker
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Description for Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause
Examines how southern evangelical men and women transformed a Yankee moral reform movement into an ideology that was compatible with southern culture and values. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 608.
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, and by 1915, liquor had been officially banned from the region as a result ... Read more
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, and by 1915, liquor had been officially banned from the region as a result ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813124711
SKU
V9780813124711
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About Joe L. Coker
Joe L. Coker teaches in the core curriculum program at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.
Reviews for Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause
A standout book in southern and religious history. - Paul Harvey, author of Freedom's Coming