SPACE AND ORDER IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICAN TEMPERANCE
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Beschreibung
By the early nineteenth century, the movement against the use and distribution
of alcohol was seeing a huge surge in popularity in the United
States. Through speeches, stories, poems, plays, paintings, and parades,
anti-alcohol organisations and activists railed against the dangers of drink,
arguing that the continued use of alcohol would lead to the not-so-gradual
downfall of individuals and families – even of the known world.
The present volume explores this era in American activist history. It specifically
charts how US anti-alcohol sentiment of the period engaged
with real-world spaces and circumstances. An analytical focus on space
reveals that temperance – far from being simply religiously or spiritually
motivated – dealt seriously with apparent contemporary circumstances.
This engagement with the real world in part lent temperance its appeal:
abstinence from alcohol would improve manifold spaces that mattered to
contemporaries, including the nation, the capitalist marketplace, as well as
each individual’s body.
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FERDINAND NYBERG
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