Moonshiners and prohibitionists
Subtitle: the battle over alcohol in southern Appalachia
By: Bruce E. Stewart
Series: New directions in southern history; New directions in southern history
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780813130002; 9780813130170
Subjects: Social conditions; Illicit Distilling; Prohibition; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The beginnings of antialcohol reform, 1790-1860; title: "This country improves in cultivation, wickedness, mills, and still" : distilling and drinking during the antebellum period; title: Select men of sober and industrious habits : alcohol reform and social conflict during the late antebellum period; title: The golden age of moonshining, 1861-1876; title: "Is there any way to get at the distillers?" : the fall and rise of the moonshiners, 1861-1868; title: "They tax us and give us negro civil rights" : moonshiner violence and the politics of federal liquor taxation, 1868-1876; title: The road to prohibition, 1870-1908; title: Civilization requires prohibition : the beginning of the end for the moonshiners, 1870-1882; title: "These big-boned, semi-barbarian people" : creation of the myth of violent Appalachia and its consequences, 1878-1890; title: "Afloat on the tide of improvement" : the uplift movement and rise of prohibition sentiment in rural communities, 1885-1900; title: "Wilt thou send the revenues down upon the distillers" : a political history of prohibition, 1882-1908.