Author: Henry WARREN (Member of the Society for the Suppression of Intemperance.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
An Address delivered at Roxburg, before the Roxburg Auxiliary Society for the suppression of intemperance
Author: Henry WARREN (Member of the Society for the Suppression of Intemperance.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Address delivered at Roxbury, before the Roxbury Auxiliary Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, June 30, 1820
Author: Joseph HARRINGTON (of San Francisco.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Circular Addressed to the Members of the Massachusetts Society for Suppressing Intemperance
Author: Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of IntemperancePublisher:
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Journal of the American Temperance Union
Author: From Revivals to Removal
Author: John A. Andrew, IIIPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033121X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Between the end of the Revolutionary War in 1781 and Andrew Jackson's retirement from the presidency in 1837, a generation of Americans acted out a great debate over the nature of the national character and the future political, economic, and religious course of the country. Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831) and many others saw the debate as a battle over the soul of America. Alarmed and disturbed by the brashness of Jacksonian democracy, they feared that the still-young ideal of a stable, cohesive, deeply principled republic was under attack by the forces of individualism, liberal capitalism, expansionism, and a zealous blend of virtue and religiosity. A missionary, reformer, and activist, Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831) was a central figure of neo-Calvinism in the early American republic. An intellectual and spiritual heir to the founding fathers and a forebear of American Victorianism, Evarts is best remembered today as the stalwart opponent of Andrew Jackson's Indian policies--specifically the removal of Cherokees from the Southeast. John A. Andrew's study of Evarts is the most comprehensive ever written. Based predominantly on readings of Evart's personal and family papers, religious periodicals, records of missionary and benevolent organizations, and government documents related to Indian affairs, it is also a portrait of the society that shaped-and was shaped by-Evart's beliefs and principles. Evarts failed to tame the powerful forces of change at work in the early republic, Evarts did manage to shape broad responses to many of them. Perhaps the truest measure of his influence is that his dream of a government based on Christian principles became a rallying cry for another generation and another cause: abolitionism.
The Transformation of American Temperance
Author: Paul R. MeyerPublisher:
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Category : Prohibition
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryProceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Early American Imprints, 1801-1819
Author: Devil of the Domestic Sphere
Author: Scott C. MartinPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Drink, in the minds of antebellum temperance reformers, represented the threat of an increasingly urban, industrial world. Contrasting the drunkards' lack of restraint with their own thrift and sobriety, these members of the emerging middle class lay claim to respectability, virtue, and moral leadership. As they sought to legitimate their own authority, reformers also employed temperance literature to propagate middle-class ideas about the nature of women and their role as guardians of the home. Stories of women as innocent victims and loving saviors filled temperance literature. Ministers, novelists, and journalists portrayed wives beaten by drunken husbands; poets and songwriters extolled mothers and sisters who rescued men from demon drink. Yet a strand of misogyny also ran through temperance ideology. Denunciation of women as causes of intemperance and snares for men, and celebration of women's victimization often coexisted with a more positive assessment of women's role in the emerging middle class. Unless a woman remained vigilant, she too might succumb to drink, and reformers had very little sympathy for such a fallen angel. By examining the contradictory images of women employed by the antebellum temperance movement, Scott Martin reveals the reformers' commitment not only to social betterment but also to middle-class interests and a particular gender ideology. Martin explores the reasons why more men than women drank, the ways in which society dealt with women who neglected familial and social obligations to become drunkards, and the consequences of women's failure to eradicate male drunkenness.