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Liquor in the land of the lost cause : southern white evangelicals and the prohibition movement /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coker, Joe L., 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2007]
Subjects:
Prohibition > Southern States > History.
Temperance and religion > Southern States > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.