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Author : Pennsylvania Society for Discouraging the Use of Ardent Spirits,Pennsylvania State Temperance Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Liquor laws
ISBN : OCLC:1026658124
Author : Pennsylvania Society for Discouraging the Use of Ardent Spirits
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Liquor laws
ISBN : OCLC:228719190
Author : Pennsylvania Society
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 0666742928
Excerpt from Report of a Committee Appointed by the Pennsylvania Society, for Discouraging the Use of Ardent Spirits, to Examine and Report What Amendments Ought to Be Made in the Laws of the Said State: For the Suppression of Vice and Immorality, Particularly Those Against Gaming, Read and Adopted, February 14, 1828 Upon the existing laws against habitual drunkenness, these observations may be made - that they look upon it as of a deeper dye than occasional drunkenness - that they presume the possibility of the habitual drunkard's reform, and there fore offer him strong inducements to correct this evil pro pensity - and lastly, they endeavour to debar him of the ordi nary ways and means by which it may be gratified. Before your Committee recite those laws, they may be allowed to express their sense of the wisdom and foresight whic'h mark many of their provisions, however defective they may be in the others, and their deep regret that they are not oftener carried inte execution, certain as they are that the execution of them would more than once save many a respectable family from ruin, and many an unfortunate drunkard from destruction. The general ignorance which prevails in the community with respect to them, may account for their very rare execution, and renders it highly desirable that they should be published in such a mode as to make them familiar to every member of society. 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.
Author : Adam D. Shprintzen
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781469608914
Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921
Author : Matthew Warner Osborn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226099927
"This important study explores the medicalization of alcohol abuse in the 19th century US” and its influence on American literature and popular culture (Choice). In Rum Maniacs, Matthew Warner Osborn examines the rise of pathological drinking as a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in 19th century America. At the heart of that story is the disease that afflicted Edgar Allen Poe: delirium tremens. Poe’s alcohol addiction was so severe that it gave him hallucinations, such as his vivid recollection of standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate his mother’s body—an event that never happened. First described in 1813, delirium tremens and its characteristic hallucinations inspired sweeping changes in how the medical profession saw and treated the problems of alcohol abuse. Based on new theories of pathological anatomy, human physiology, and mental illness, the new diagnosis established the popular belief that habitual drinking could become a psychological and physiological disease. By midcentury, delirium tremens had inspired a wide range of popular theater, poetry, fiction, and illustration. This romantic fascination endured into the twentieth century, most notably in the classic Disney cartoon Dumbo, in which a pink pachyderm marching band haunts a drunken young elephant. Rum Maniacs reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082987960
Author : Scott C. Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124099677
Drink, in the minds of antebellum temperance reformers, represented the threat of an increasingly urban, industrial world. Contrasting the drunkards' lack of restraint with their own thrift and sobriety, these members of the emerging middle class lay claim to respectability, virtue, and moral leadership. As they sought to legitimate their own authority, reformers also employed temperance literature to propagate middle-class ideas about the nature of women and their role as guardians of the home. Stories of women as innocent victims and loving saviors filled temperance literature. Ministers, novelists, and journalists portrayed wives beaten by drunken husbands; poets and songwriters extolled mothers and sisters who rescued men from demon drink. Yet a strand of misogyny also ran through temperance ideology. Denunciation of women as causes of intemperance and snares for men, and celebration of women's victimization often coexisted with a more positive assessment of women's role in the emerging middle class. Unless a woman remained vigilant, she too might succumb to drink, and reformers had very little sympathy for such a fallen angel. By examining the contradictory images of women employed by the antebellum temperance movement, Scott Martin reveals the reformers' commitment not only to social betterment but also to middle-class interests and a particular gender ideology. Martin explores the reasons why more men than women drank, the ways in which society dealt with women who neglected familial and social obligations to become drunkards, and the consequences of women's failure to eradicate male drunkenness.
Author : Matthew Warner Osborn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X77335
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015012261205
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082983415
Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442690851
Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that continues today. Backhouse presents detailed narratives of six court cases, each giving evidence of blatant racism created and enforced through law. The cases focus on Aboriginal, Inuit, Chinese-Canadian, and African-Canadian individuals, taking us from the criminal prosecution of traditional Aboriginal dance to the trial of members of the 'Ku Klux Klan of Kanada.' From thousands of possibilities, Backhouse has selected studies that constitute central moments in the legal history of race in Canada. Her selection also considers a wide range of legal forums, including administrative rulings by municipal councils, criminal trials before police magistrates, and criminal and civil cases heard by the highest courts in the provinces and by the Supreme Court of Canada. The extensive and detailed documentation presented here leaves no doubt that the Canadian legal system played a dominant role in creating and preserving racial discrimination. A central message of this book is that racism is deeply embedded in Canadian history despite Canada's reputation as a raceless society. Winner of the Joseph Brant Award, presented by the Ontario Historical Society
Author : Karl Polanyi
Publisher : Random House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781802065169
‘One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written. ... A must-read’ Thomas Piketty 'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect ‘Polanyi’s revolutionary work is a must-read’ Mariana Mazzucato Karl Polanyi's landmark 1944 work is one of the earliest and most powerful critiques of unregulated markets. Tracing the history of capitalism from the great transformation of the industrial revolution onwards, he shows that there has been nothing 'natural' about the market state. Instead of reducing human relations and our environment to mere commodities, the economy must always be embedded in civil society. Describing the 'avalanche of social dislocation' of his time, Polanyi’s hugely influential work is a passionate call to protect our common humanity. ‘Polanyi's vision for an alternative economy re-embedded in politics and social relations offers a refreshing alternative’ Guardian ‘Polanyi exposes the myth of the free market’ Joseph E. Stiglitz With a new introduction by Gareth Dale
Author : C.L.R. James
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593687338
A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812200102
In 1821, at the age of seventy-seven, Thomas Jefferson decided to "state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself." His ancestors, Jefferson writes, came to America from Wales in the early seventeenth century and settled in the Virginia colony. Jefferson's father, although uneducated, possessed a "strong mind and sound judgement" and raised his family in the far western frontier of the colony, an experience that contributed to his son's eventual staunch defense of individual and state rights. Jefferson attended the College of William and Mary, entered the law, and in 1775 was elected to represent Virginia at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, an event that propelled him to all of his future political fortunes. Jefferson's autobiography continues through the entire Revolutionary War period, and his insights and information about persons, politics, and events—including the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, his service in France with Benjamin Franklin, and his observations on the French Revolution—are of immense value to both scholars and general readers. Jefferson ends this account of his life at the moment he returns to New York to become secretary of state in 1790. Complementing the other major autobiography of the period, Benjamin Franklin's, The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, reintroduced for this edition by historian Michael Zuckerman, gives us a glimpse into the private life and associations of one of America's most influential personalities. Alongside Jefferson's absorbing narrative of the way compromises were achieved at the Continental Congress are comments about his own health and day-to-day life that allow the reader to picture him more fully as a human being. Throughout, Jefferson states his opinions and ideas about many issues, including slavery, the death penalty, and taxation. Although Jefferson did not carry this autobiography further into his eventual presidency, the foundations for all of his thoughts are here, and it is in these pages that Jefferson lays out what to him was his most important contribution to his country, the creation of a democratic republic.
Author : Robert W. Coakley
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0788128183
Describes the essential elements of the incidents from the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 to the Reconstruction that followed the Civil War and the ways in which federal military force was applied in each case. Includes: the Fries Rebellion, the Burr Conspiracy, Slave Rebellions, the Nullification Crisis, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Riots, the 3Buckshot War2, the Patriot War, the Dorr Rebellion, the Army as Posse Comitatus, San Francisco Vigilantes, the Utah Expedition, the Civil War, etc. Extensive bibliography. Index. Full-color and b&w photos and maps.