Alcohol and Public Policy
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1981-02-01
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 0309031494
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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1981-02-01
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 0309031494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas J. Lappas
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2020-02-13
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 0806166630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany Americans are familiar with the real, but repeatedly stereotyped problem of alcohol abuse in Indian country. Most know about the Prohibition Era and reformers who promoted passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, among them the members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. But few people are aware of how American Indian women joined forces with the WCTU to press for positive change in their communities, a critical chapter of American cultural history explored in depth for the first time in In League Against King Alcohol. Drawing on the WCTU’s national records as well as state and regional organizational newspaper accounts and official state histories, historian Thomas John Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country. His work reveals how Native American women in the organization embraced a type of social, economic, and political progress that their white counterparts supported and recognized—while maintaining distinctly Native elements of sovereignty, self-determination, and cultural preservation. They asserted their identities as Indigenous women, albeit as Christian and progressive Indigenous women. At the same time, through their mutual participation, white WCTU members formed conceptions about Native people that they subsequently brought to bear on state and local Indian policy pertaining to alcohol, but also on education, citizenship, voting rights, and land use and ownership. Lappas’s work places Native women at the center of the temperance story, showing how they used a women’s national reform organization to move their own goals and objectives forward. Subtly but significantly, they altered the welfare and status of American Indian communities in the early twentieth century.
Author: Samuel Fenton Cary
Publisher: New York : R. Vandien
Published: 1850
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frances Elizabeth Willard
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0252032071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive collection of speeches and writings of one of America's most important social reformers Thought to be the most famous woman in America at the time of her death, Frances E. Willard was best known for leading America's largest women's organization (the Woman's Christian Temperance Union), which shaped both domestic and international opinion on major political, economic, and social reform issues. Including Willard's representative speeches and pub-lished writings on everything from temperance and women's rights to the new labor movement and Christian socialism, "Let Something Good Be Said" is the first volume to collect the messages that inspired a generation of women to activism.
Author: Silas White Leonard
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David M. Fahey
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0813161517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne 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: United States Department of Transportation
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1985-02-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 0309034493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlcohol is a killerâ€"1 of every 13 deaths in the United States is alcohol-related. In addition, 5 percent of the population consumes 50 percent of the alcohol. The authors take a close look at the problem in a "classy little study," as The Washington Post called this book. The Library Journal states, "...[T]his is one book that addresses solutions....And it's enjoyably readable....This is an excellent review for anyone in the alcoholism prevention business, and good background reading for the interested layperson." The Washington Post agrees: the book "...likely will wind up on the bookshelves of counselors, politicians, judges, medical professionals, and law enforcement officials throughout the country."
Author: George Edwin Mowry
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781258285630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributing Authors Include Edward Earl Purinton, Arlington Stone, Stuart Chase And Many Others.
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph R. Gusfield
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780252013126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe important role of the Temperance movement throughout American history is analyzed as clashes and conflicts between rival social systems, cultures, and status groups. Sometimes the "dry" is winning the classic battle for prestige and political power. Sometimes, as in today's society, he is losing. This significant contribution to the theory of status conflict also discloses the importance of political acts as symbolic acts and offers a dramatistic theory of status politics, Gusfield provides a useful addition to the economic and psychological modes of analysis current in the study of political and social movements.