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Temperance - History

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12 works

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    The spirits of America : a social history of alcohol / Eric Burns.

    | Eric Burns | Date: 2004
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    Drunken husbands, drunken state : the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's challenge to American families and public communities in Chicago, 1874-1920 / by Rachel Elizabeth Bohlmann.

    | Bohlmann, Rachel Elizabeth. | Date: 2001
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    Treatment of alcoholism : the American experience, 1850-2000 / by Patricia Spaniol Mathews.

    | Mathews, Patricia Spaniol. | Date: 2001
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    The wonderful advantages of drunkenness : containing a variety of plain and important maxims, well worthy of being remembered by every man and woman in the kingdom.

    | Date: [1830?]
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    Father Mathew's crusade : temperance in nineteenth-century Ireland and Irish America / John F. Quinn.

    | Quinn, John F., 1964- | Date: [2002]
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages - History
Alcoholism - History
United States
19th-20th centuries

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