Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
the battleover alcohol in southern Appalachia |
Author: |
StewartBruce E, |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
Lexington |
Published: |
University Press of Kentucky; |
Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 325 p.)ill. : |
Series: |
New directions in southern history |
Subject: |
Prohibition - History - North Carolina - 19th century - |
Subject: |
Prohibition - History - North Carolina - 18th century - |
Subject: |
Distilling, Illicit - History - North Carolina - 19th century - |
Subject: |
Distilling, Illicit - History - North Carolina - 18th century - |
Subject: |
North Carolina - Social conditions - 19th century - |
Subject: |
North Carolina - Social conditions - 18th century - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813130170/ |
Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: |
9780813130170electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9780813130002hbk. |
ISBN: |
081313000Xhbk. |
ISBN: |
0813130174ebook |
Content Note: |
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 anyway to get at the distillers?" : the falland rise of the moonshiners,1861-1868 -- "They tax us and give us negro civil rights" : moonshinerviolence and the politics of federal liquor taxation, 1868-1876 -- Theroad 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 prohibitionsentiment in rural communities, 1885-1900 -- "Wilt thou send the revenues down upon the distillers": a political history of prohibition, 1882-1908 |