Substitutes for the Saloon

Substitutes for the Saloon

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  • Author: Raymond Calkins
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  • Category : Alcoholism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 432


Social Problems

Social Problems

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  • Author: Ezra Thayer Towne
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  • Category : Social problems
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 462


The Making of Urban America

The Making of Urban America

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  • Author: Raymond A. Mohl
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 9780842026390
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 402

This second edition is designed to introduce students of urban history to recent interpretive literature in this field. Its goal is to provide a coherent framework for understanding the pattern of American urbanization, while at the same time offering specific examples of the work of historians in the field.


Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

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  • Author: Francesco Landolfi
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000623483
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 448

This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition only after the end of WWI with the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. By considering the success that war prohibition made to the soldiers' psychophysical condition, Congress aimed to shift this political move even to civil society. So it was that the Italian, Irish and Jewish mobs took the chance to spread their bribe system to local politics due to the lucrative alcohol bootlegging. New York became the core of the national anti-prohibition, where the smuggling from Canada and Europe merged into the legendary Manhattan nightclubs and speakeasies. With the coming of the Great Depression, the Republican Party was aware about the failure of this political measure, leading to the making of a new corporate underworld. The book is addressed to historians of New York, historians of crime and historians of modern America as well as to an audience of readers interested in the history of the Prohibition Era.


The Congregationalist

The Congregationalist

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  • Category : Boston (Mass. )
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1760


Faces Along the Bar

Faces Along the Bar

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  • Author: Madelon Powers
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 9780226677699
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 348

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Pt. I: The Criteria for Comradeship1: The Importance of Being Regular 2: Gender, Age, and Marital Status 3: Occupation, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood Pt. II: The Gentle Art of Clubbing4: Drinking Folkways 5: Clubbing by Treat 6: Clubbing by CollectionPt. III: More Lore of the Barroom7: Games and Gambling 8: Talk and Storytelling 9: Songs and Singing 10: The Free Lunch ConclusionNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.


Alcoholism in America

Alcoholism in America

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  • Author: Sarah W. Tracy
  • Publisher: JHU Press
  • ISBN: 0801891671
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 396

Despite the lack of medical consensus regarding alcoholism as a disease, many people readily accept the concept of addiction as a clinical as well as a social disorder. An alcoholic is a victim of social circumstance and genetic destiny. Although one might imagine that this dual approach is a reflection of today's enlightened and sympathetic society, historian Sarah Tracy discovers that efforts to medicalize alcoholism are anything but new. Alcoholism in America tells the story of physicians, politicians, court officials, and families struggling to address the danger of excessive alcohol consumption at the turn of the century. Beginning with the formation of the American Association for the Cure of Inebriates in 1870 and concluding with the enactment of Prohibition in 1920, this study examines the effect of the disease concept on individual drinkers and their families and friends, as well as the ongoing battle between policymakers and the professional medical community for jurisdiction over alcohol problems. Tracy captures the complexity of the political, professional, and social negotiations that have characterized the alcoholism field both yesterday and today. Tracy weaves American medical history, social history, and the sociology of knowledge into a narrative that probes the connections among reform movements, social welfare policy, the specialization of medicine, and the social construction of disease. Her insights will engage all those interested in America's historic and current battles with addiction.


Drinking

Drinking

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  • Author: Susanna Barrows
  • Publisher: Univ of California Press
  • ISBN: 0520334051
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 462

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.


Dry Manhattan

Dry Manhattan

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  • Author: Michael A. Lerner
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN: 0674030575
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 360

Presents a study of the impact of Prohibition on New York, describing how it led to a clash between proponents of personal liberty and advocates of societal reform and how officials were unable to enforce the ban on alcohol.


Outlook

Outlook

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  • Author: Alfred Emanuel Smith
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1022