Centennial Temperance Volume
Title | Centennial Temperance Volume PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1018 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | Temperance |
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Temperance Sermons
Title | Temperance Sermons PDF eBook |
Author | National Temperance Society and Publication House |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | Temperance |
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Pathways to Prohibition
Title | Pathways to Prohibition PDF eBook |
Author | Ann-Marie E. Szymanski |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2003-08-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0822385309 |
Strategies for gradually effecting social change are often dismissed as too accommodating of the status quo. Ann-Marie E. Szymanski challenges this assumption, arguing that moderation is sometimes the most effective way to achieve change. Pathways to Prohibition examines the strategic choices of social movements by focusing on the fates of two temperance campaigns. The prohibitionists of the 1880s gained limited success, while their Progressive Era counterparts achieved a remarkable—albeit temporary—accomplishment in American politics: amending the United States Constitution. Szymanski accounts for these divergent outcomes by asserting that choice of strategy (how a social movement defines and pursues its goals) is a significant element in the success or failure of social movements, underappreciated until now. Her emphasis on strategy represents a sharp departure from approaches that prioritize political opportunity as the most consequential factor in campaigns for social change. Combining historical research with the insights of social movement theory, Pathways to Prohibition shows how a locally based, moderate strategy allowed the early-twentieth-century prohibition crusade both to develop a potent grassroots component and to transcend the limited scope of local politics. Szymanski describes how the prohibition movement’s strategic shift toward moderate goals after 1900 reflected the devolution of state legislatures’ liquor licensing power to localities, the judiciary’s growing acceptance of these local licensing regimes, and a collective belief that local electorates, rather than state legislatures, were best situated to resolve controversial issues like the liquor question. "Local gradualism" is well suited to the porous, federal structure of the American state, Szymanski contends, and it has been effectively used by a number of social movements, including the civil rights movement and the Christian right.
Annual Report
Title | Annual Report PDF eBook |
Author | National Temperance Society and Publication House |
Publisher | |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 1886 |
Genre | |
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A Woman of the Century
Title | A Woman of the Century PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Elizabeth Willard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 830 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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The Semi-Centennial Volume of the Eliot Church, Lowell, Mass.; Containing a Sermon from Each Pastor, Papers and Letters Furnished for the Jubilee Celebration, Confessions of Faith, Etc.
Title | The Semi-Centennial Volume of the Eliot Church, Lowell, Mass.; Containing a Sermon from Each Pastor, Papers and Letters Furnished for the Jubilee Celebration, Confessions of Faith, Etc. PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Greene |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2024-05-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3385456177 |
Alcohol as a Food and Medicine
Title | Alcohol as a Food and Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Ezra Mundy Hunt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | Alcohol |
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