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The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
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The author of The Alcoholic Republic began researching this book to find out what prompted so many to attack alcohol consumption in the early nineteenth-century. W.J Rorabaugh found statistics, in his research, to support his idea that the Temperance Movement was “launched as a response to a peri ....
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....ges per capita than ever before or since”(ix). In fact many foreigners were shocked at the amount of alcohol they saw being consumed in America. Men of all occupations, social classes, and ages drank heavily during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century. Though alcohol consumption wasn’t considered a taboo, public drunkenness was. And the use of distilled liquors became associated with crime and disorder causing a major social problem. Despite the fact that distilled spirits reflec.... |
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