Global Temperance and the Balkans

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This book examines the local manifestation of the global temperance movement in the Balkans. It argues that regional histories of social movements in the modern period could not be sufficiently understood in isolation. Moreover, the book argues that broad transformations of social movements – for example, the power centers associated with moral/religious temperance and the later, scientifically based anti-alcohol campaigns – are more easily identifiable through a detailed regional study. For this purpose, the book begins by sketching the historical development as well as the main historiographical themes surrounding the worldwide temperance movement. The book then zooms in on the movement in the Balkans and Bulgaria in particular. American missionaries founded the temperance movement in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. The interwar period, however, witnessed the proliferation of new, professional organizations. The book discusses the various branches as well as their international and political affiliations, showing that the anti-alcohol reform movement was one of the most important social movements in the region.
This book examines the local manifestation of the global temperance movement in the Balkans. It argues that regional histories of social movements in the modern period could not be sufficiently understood in isolation. Moreover, the book argues that broad transformations of social movements – for example, the power centers associated with moral/religious temperance and the later, scientifically based anti-alcohol campaigns – are more easily identifiable through a detailed regional study. For this purpose, the book begins by sketching the historical development as well as the main historiographical themes surrounding the worldwide temperance movement. The book then zooms in on the movement in the Balkans and Bulgaria in particular. American missionaries founded the temperance movement in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. The interwar period, however, witnessed the proliferation of new, professional organizations. The book discusses the various branches as well as their international and political affiliations, showing that the anti-alcohol reform movement was one of the most important social movements in the region.
Provides the first in-depth study of drinking habits and the temperance movement in the Balkans from a global history perspective Shows how the missionaries, social hygienists and political activists involved in this region participated in and transformed global reform movements at the beginning of the twentieth century Analyses how global reform movements contributed to the formation of new national identities in the Balkans

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Nikolay Kamenov

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Alcohol Drinking Bulgaria Missionaries Social hygiene Political activism Nationalism International networks Psychoactive Drugs Modern societies

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“For work outside the Anglosphere and the chronology of the American temperance movement, Nikolay Kamenov’s ‘Global Temperance and the Balkans’ is a worthy contribution. He does not spring to the other extreme of neglecting Anglo-American temperance but sets the local case in the context of reformers’ international ambitions. … The book is important in showing the impacts (and limitations) of the Protestant movement of the late 19th century.” (Ian Tyrrell, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, May 31, 2024)

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