Liquor in the land of the lost cause :
Coker, Joe L., 1969-
Liquor in the land of the lost cause : southern white evangelicals and the prohibition movement / Joe L. Coker. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2007. - x, 329 p. ; 24 cm. - Religion in the South .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-321) and index.
Introduction -- "Distilled damnation" : temperance before 1880 -- "It is not enough that the church should be sober" : drying up the South, 1880-1915 -- "Why don't he give his attention to saving sinners?" : prohibition and politics -- "But what seek those dark ballots?" : prohibition and race -- "Let the cowards vote as they will, I'm for prohibition still" : prohibition and the southern cult of honor -- "Some of our best preachers part their hair in the middle" : prohibition and gender -- Conclusion.
9780813124711 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813124719 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2007025152
Temperance and religion--History.--Southern States
Prohibition--History.--Southern States
HV5187 / .C65 2007
363.4/1097509034
Liquor in the land of the lost cause : southern white evangelicals and the prohibition movement / Joe L. Coker. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2007. - x, 329 p. ; 24 cm. - Religion in the South .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-321) and index.
Introduction -- "Distilled damnation" : temperance before 1880 -- "It is not enough that the church should be sober" : drying up the South, 1880-1915 -- "Why don't he give his attention to saving sinners?" : prohibition and politics -- "But what seek those dark ballots?" : prohibition and race -- "Let the cowards vote as they will, I'm for prohibition still" : prohibition and the southern cult of honor -- "Some of our best preachers part their hair in the middle" : prohibition and gender -- Conclusion.
9780813124711 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813124719 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2007025152
Temperance and religion--History.--Southern States
Prohibition--History.--Southern States
HV5187 / .C65 2007
363.4/1097509034