[PDF] One Hundred Years Of Temperance eBook

Author : David M. Fahey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0813161517

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One hundred twenty years ago, the Independent Order of Good Templars was the world's largest, most militant, and most evangelical organization hostile to alcoholic drink. Standing in the forefront of the international temperance movement, it was recognized worldwide as a potent social and moral force. Temperance and Racism restores the Templars, now an almost forgotten footnote in American and British social history, to a position of prominence within the temperance movement. The group's ideology of universal membership made it unique among fraternal organizations in the late nineteenth century and led to pioneering efforts on behalf of equal rights for women. Its policy toward African Americans was more ambiguous. Though a great many white Templars, especially those in Great Britain, rejected the extreme racism prevalent in the late nineteenth century, members in the American South did not. The decision to allow state lodges to rule on their membership eligibility led to the great schism of 1876-87. The break was mended only after British leaders compromised their ideals of universal brotherhood and sisterhood for the sake of the organization's international unity. Drawing on previously unused primary sources, David Fahey reveals much about racial attitudes and behavior in the late nineteenth century on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, and on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Agnes Dubbs Hays
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Temperance
ISBN :

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This book provides the history of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union for their 100th anniversary. Information was taken from the annual meetings, annual addresses of the presidents, and the recorded resolutions and recommendations. Illustrations are provided to show the character of the women involved and the organization's heritage.

Author : American Temperance Society
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781396801495

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Excerpt from Permanent Temperance Documents of the American Temperance Society, Vol. 1 In the evils which this Society aims to remove, the connection between error in princip e, and immorality in practice, is strikingly exhibited. Less than three hundred years ago, * the error began to prevail in Great Britain, that ardent spirit, as an article of luxury or diet, or as an aid to labor, is useful. The cause of this error was, the deceptive feelings of those who used it. Being, in its nature, a mocker, it deceived them. By disturbing healthy action and inducing disease, it created an unnatural thirst; the gratification of which, like the gratification of the desire of sinning in the man who sins, causes it to increase; and the end is death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Sabine N. Meyer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252097408

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Sabine N. Meyer eschews the generalities of other temperance histories to provide a close-grained story about the connections between alcohol consumption and identity in the upper Midwest. Meyer examines the ever-shifting ways that ethnicity, gender, class, religion, and place interacted with each other during the long temperance battle in Minnesota. Her deconstruction of Irish and German ethnic positioning with respect to temperance activism provides a rare interethnic history of the movement. At the same time, she shows how women engaged in temperance work as a way to form public identities and reforges the largely neglected, yet vital link between female temperance and suffrage activism. Relatedly, Meyer reflects on the continuities and changes between how the movement functioned to construct identity in the heartland versus the movement's more often studied roles in the East. She also gives a nuanced portrait of the culture clash between a comparatively reform-minded Minneapolis and dynamic anti-temperance forces in whiskey-soaked St. Paul--forces supported by government, community, and business institutions heavily invested in keeping the city wet.