Southern prohibition : race, reform, and public life in middle Florida, 1821-1920 / Lee L. Willis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willis, Lee, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prohibition--Florida--History--19th century.

Prohibition.

Prohibition--Florida--History--20th century.

Temperance--Florida--History--19th century.

Temperance.

Temperance--Florida--History--20th century.

History.

Florida--History--1821-1865.

Florida.

Florida--History--1865-.

Physical Description:

xi, 209 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2011]

Summary:

Nearly 100 years before Prohibition took effect, the temperance movement in Florida produced futile, and often violent, efforts to outlaw the sale of liquor. Such a movement attacked the very core of existence for the majority of citizens who gathered at the tavern to discuss politics, catch up on news, socialize and entertain. Willis (history U. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) details a century of conflict involving race, politics, religion, gender and class as concerned middle Floridians sought to bring order to what they deemed an unstable citizenry under the influence of alcohol--foreshadowing the same battle in the war on drugs. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

"To remain dram drinkers and tipplers": taverns, temperance, and political culture in Territorial Florida

"We have got no billiard saloon": temperance in Antebellum Florida

"Drinking and gamboling": alcohol, temperance, and the Civil War

"In close communion with John Barleycorn": race, reform, and reconstruction

"Kill the beast and save the boys": local option in Leon County

"Good order": local option in Franklin County.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820329277

0820329274

9780820341415

082034141X

OCLC:

707023086