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The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
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The author of The Alcoholic Republic began researching this book to find out what prompted so many to attack alcohol consumption in the early nineteenth-century. W.J Rorabaugh found statistics, in his research, to support his idea that the Temperance Movement was “launched as a response to a period of exceptionally hearty drinking” (ix). T ....
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....mperance movement. Such books included John Krout’s The Origins of Prohibition (N.Y., 1925) and Joseph Gusfield’s Symbolic Crusade (Urbana, 1963).
“Americans between 1790 and 1830 drank more alcoholic beverages per capita than ever before or since”(ix). In fact many foreigners were shocked at the amount of alcohol they saw being consumed .... |
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