The Woman's Temperance Movement


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Excerpt from The Woman's Temperance Movement: A Concise History of the Woman's War on Alcohol; Containing History, Plans, Methods of Operation, Pledges, Incidents, Humors of the Campaign, Etc., Etc., It Also Gives a Summary of Results of Success, With Plans of Procedure, Etc Earnest temperance workers throughout the country' will want to know how to promote and conduct such a revival. We answer, Just as you would any such work of grace. Prayer, continual prayer to God, is the first requisite it cannot be manufactured by old-stock anecdotes and speeches or by agitation for Stringent legal action merely. It must come from above, God will use only the consecrated heart in its promotion; so that to those who are longing for power to crush the great enemy, we say, Offer yourselves fully, entirely to God, and let each Christian woman every where say unto God, Here am I, send me and He may put upon you the high honor of using you, through an intensified piety, as an instrument in this holiest of crusades, for the protection and salvation of our imperilled Christian civilization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Woman and Temperance


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Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.







Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century


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Through an examination of the two icons of the nineteenth century American temperance movement -- the self-made man and the crusading woman -- Fletcher demonstrates the evolving meaning and context of temperance and gender.




The Temperance Movement


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Prohibition


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Prohibition was a grassroots movement that changed America. Through an engaging recounting of historical events accompanied by eye-catching imagery, students will get to know some of Prohibition's dynamic leaders through their own words and actions, including Carry Nation who swung her ax to break up saloons, and Frances Willard who was a leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Readers will meet Purley Baker, the persuasive lobbyist who convinced lawmakers to carry out the plans of his organization, the Anti-Saloon League, and ban the sale and manufacture of distilled spirits. A detailed chronology, chapter notes, and a further reading section with books, websites, and films offer in-depth information and additional resources for study.