American temperance movements : cycles of reform
Jack S. Blocker
Bok · Engelsk · 1989
| Utgitt | Boston : Twayne publishers , c1989
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| Omfang | XVI,199s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | For most Americans, temperance reform began and ended with the disaster of prohibition . This book tells a more complex story. Attempts to control drinking, whether by "moral suasion" or legal coercion, have been a persistent feature of the American political and social landscape from the eighteenth century to the 1980's. In each of the five cycles of reform that he identifies, Blocker sees the playing out of a drama in wich reformers try at first to reform their adversaires by persuasion but finally resort to legal coercion . The history of temperance reveals much about the shifting class and gender relations in America.
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| Emner | |
| ISBN | 0805797270
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