Gender and the American temperance movement of the nineteenth century / Holly Berkley Fletcher.

Author/creator Fletcher, Holly Berkley
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2008.
Descriptionxii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesStudies in American popular history and culture
American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm)) ^A503865
Contents Self-made men : temperance, identity, and authority in Antebellum America -- Temperance counter-cultures and the coming of the civil war -- Let patriots join hands : the Civil War and the war on alcohol -- Crusading women : the creation of a new temperance icon -- A knitting together of hearts : the Crusader, the WCTU, and the building of a temperance coalition.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 169-185) and index.
LCCN 2007029538
ISBN0415963125
ISBN9780415963121