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Temperance Reform in the Cotton Kingdom
The study of antebellum reform movements has usually focused upon the North because the hub and the bulk of reform activity was located there, and because Southern states expressed opposition to what they branded as fanatical social ideas, most notably abolition. The prominence of abolition among …
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'A Platform Upon Which All Could Unite?: Temperance in Ulster and the Irish Temperance League, 1858-1914'
This research looks at the Irish temperance movement in Ulster between 1858-1914. It focuses on the organisation, the Irish Temperance League that was formed in Belfast in 1858. The League’s fundamental aim was to provide a platform upon which all total abstinence reformers in Ireland could unite. …
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Jessie Ackerman, 'The Original World Citizen': Temperance Leader, Suffrage Pioneer, Feminist, Humanitarian.
… world missionary for the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Her fascinating life sheds light on the most important issues facing women during this time period. Most WCTU women have been dismissed by twentieth century scholars as being religiously fanatical and conservative. They have been …
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'Woman's mission': the temperance and women's suffrage movements in Scotland, c.1870-1914
… together the late-nineteenth-century women’s temperance and suffrage movements in Scotland. The importance of women’s temperance reform in the women’s movement has been discussed in other Anglophone contexts, however there has been little scholarly analysis of these links in British …
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Lenna Lowe Yost, temperance, and the ratification of the woman suffrage amendment by West Virginia
… and her role in two important reform causes---temperance and woman suffrage. It explores Yost's life and political accomplishments in both regional and national venues, progressing from her childhood, through her early activism, and culminating with the passage of the national woman suffrage …
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A force to be reckoned with? the temperance movement and the "drink question", 1895-1933
The Temperance Movement was one of the most important and influential of the great nineteenth century social and moral reforming campaigns, firmly integrated with the central Victorian values of self-help, hard work and sobriety. As the values of the Victorian period dissipated with the rapidly …
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The Temperance Worker as Social Reformer and Ethnographer as Exemplified in the Life and Work of Jessie A. Ackermann.
… Appalachia, other books and documents from the temperance period, and recent scholarship on the subjects of temperance, suffrage, and women travelers and civilizers. As the second world missionary for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Ackermann traveled in order to establish WCT Unions and …
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War is a terrible enemy to temperance: drinking, self-control, and the meaning of loyalty in the Civil War era
… war's outcome. In this context, the nation-wide temperance movement began a period of transition. Before the 1860s, interest in temperance was waning nationally; local and state regulatory measures had curbed excessive drinking. Once war broke out, however, alcohol became increasingly …
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Thomas Bywater Smithies and the British Workman : temperance education and mass circulation graphic imagery for the working classes, 1855-1883
… and widely distributed of all the illustrated temperance journals issued during the second half of the nineteenth century and yet it has received very little attention from scholars. Smithies' journal was widely recognised for the excellent quality of the wood engravingswith which it was …
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A rhetorical case study of selected temperance speeches given by Glenn Cunningham in Detroit, Michigan February 24, 1957, to March 8, 1957
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Speech, 1960
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Pathologizing and Criminalizing Intoxication: Addiction, Psychoactive Drugs, and the Ideological Underpinnings of the War on Drugs
Since the Enlightenment, Anglo-American temperance thinkers—who were usually clergymen and physicians—have expressed broader concerns about intoxication and addiction with rhetoric that simultaneously pathologized and criminalized the unsanctioned use of psychoactive substances. During the first …
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Psychosocial Maturity and Alcohol Outcomes: The Mediating role of Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies
… strategies on the relationship between temperance, responsibility, perspective (i.e., the facets of psychosocial maturity) and alcohol use outcomes. Potential invariant paths among graduate and undergraduate students were also explored. All participants were undergraduate and graduate …
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Allegories of Mastery: Sex, Science, and the Making of the Modern Body in Renaissance Utopias
… in The Faerie Queene Book 2, The Legend of Temperance (1596), Phineas Fletcher's The Purple Island (1633), Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1627), and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1655) to reveal its incompleteness and contradictions. In particular, the making of the modern body …
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Influence, Agency, and the Women of England: Victorian Ideology and the Works of Sarah Stickney Ellis
… than men. The final chapter examines Ellis's temperance fiction. This chapter focuses on Family Secrets, a collection of temperance tales Ellis published in 1842. In these stories, Ellis disrupts the ideology of separate spheres by suggesting that this philosophy is a cause of alcoholism. …
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Wilfrid Lawson : Attitudes and opinions on Britain's imperial and foreign policy (1868-1892).
… name his rarely recalled, except for his work on temperance reform, where his critics continue to describe him as a temperance fanatic and a 'one idea man'. The reality of the situation is quite the reverse; Lawson was a man with undeviating radical principles, with plenty to say on an endless …
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Spirited Measures and Victorian Hangovers: Public Attitudes to Alcohol, the Law and Moral Regulation.
… Particular attention is paid to the Victorian temperance movement which, drawing especially on the ideas of Hunt and Ruonavaara, is characterised as a moral regulation project. It is argued that, although the temperance movement itself declined in the early twentieth century, the moral …
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Singing for Blaine and for Logan! Republican Songs as Campaign Literature in the 1884 Presidential Race
… while a lack of songs on certain topics, such as temperance, reflects the party's reluctance to alienate voters by taking a strong stand on controversial issues. Although the campaign has often been called one of the dirtiest in American history, this negativity is not reflected in the majority of …
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Piety and politics: Baptist social reform in America, 1770-1860
… and promoting virtue. Chapter five presents the temperance crusade as a spiritual and political mission. Temperance tested Baptist convictions more than any other philanthropic movement. The tension between the sacred and the secular came to the fore as Baptists disagreed over the role of …
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Framing the Future: Women's Media and Activism in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Texas
… comparable to those of national suffrage and temperance movements, amplifying collective action while working within the constraints of a patriarchal Old South culture. Drawing on discourse analysis and Karlyn Kohrs Campbell’s feminist rhetorical theory, this study recovers largely forgotten …
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