Moonshiners and prohibitionists : the battle over alcohol in southern Appalachia
Record details
- ISBN: 0813130174
- ISBN: 9780813130170
- ISBN: 081313000X
- ISBN: 9780813130002
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Physical Description:
xii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents 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 any way to get at the distillers?" : the fall and rise of the moonshiners, 1861-1868 -- "They tax us and give us negro civil rights" : moonshiner violence and the politics of federal liquor taxation, 1868-1876 -- The road 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 prohibition sentiment in rural communities, 1885-1900 -- "Wilt thou send the revenues down upon the distillers" : a political history of prohibition, 1882-1908. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Wilkes County Public Library | NC 364.1 STE (Text) | 50501011644669 | Adult Nonfiction NC History | Available | - |
