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Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement.

Publication: Baptist History and Heritage
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement. Joe L. Coker. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 329 pp.

Southern culture in the late nineteenth century faced many challenges. Southerners encountered an economy devastated by war, social distress due to the changed status of the former slaves, and questions regarding industrialization; and southern evangelical leaders also encountered increased emphasis by their northern brethren on the prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol....



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