Liquor in the land of the lost cause : southern white evangelicals and the prohibition movement / Joe L. Coker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coker, Joe L., 1969-

Series:

Religion in the South.

Religion in the South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temperance and religion--Southern States--History.

Temperance and religion.

Prohibition--Southern States--History.

Prohibition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The temperance movement first appeared in America in the 1820's 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

Contents:

Introduction

"Distilled damnation" : temperance before 1880

"It is not enough that the church should be sober" : drying up the South, 1880-1915

"Why don't he give his attention to saving sinners?" : prohibition and politics

"But what seek those dark ballots?" : prohibition and race

"Let the cowards vote as they will, I'm for prohibition still" : prohibition and the southern cult of honor

"Some of our best preachers part their hair in the middle" : prohibition and gender

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-321) and index.

ISBN:

9786613233226

9780813134727

0813134722

9781283233224

1283233223

9780813172804

0813172802

OCLC:

182523192