Meyer, Sabine N., 1979-
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015].
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-255) and index.
- Focusing on the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, this project examines the ways in which the involvement of Irish and German immigrants and women in the temperance movement helped to shape their categories of identity and establish positions within society. Sabine Meyer intertwines national, regional, and urban history during the Progressive era, along with the political motivations and legislative actions at the city and state level in Minnesota, to reveal the temperance movement’s relationships and interactions with identity constructions and social, ethnic, racial, and political elements. By focusing closely on a Midwestern locale, Meyer is able to reflect on the continuities and changes between how the temperance movement functioned to construct identity in the heartland versus the movement’s more often studied roles in the East — Provided by publisher.
- Westward the jug of empire : the emergence of a temperance movement in Minnesota (1819-1865) — Organizing into blocs: the fight for or against personal liberty (1866-1887) — Talking against a stonewall : the high license consensus (1888-1897) — Putting on the lid : the Anti-Saloon League and its impact on the dry movement (1898-1915) — Equating temperance with patriotism: the Great War and the liquor question (1916-1919).
Subjects:
- Temperance — Minnesota — History — 19th century.
- Temperance — Minnesota — History — 20th century.
- Womans Temperance Crusade, 1873-1874.;Women social reformers — Minnesota — History.;Women immigrants — Political activity — Minnesota — History.;Womans Christian Temperance Union of Minnesota — History.
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