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The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
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.... 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). Though there were many factors that contributed to an increase in alcoh.... Part 2 of Paper
....findings, the amount of alcohol consumed is actually higher then documented.
Secondary books were used, to create for the author, an idea about societies attitude toward alcohol consumption and the temperance 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.... |
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