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The Coming of Southern Prohibition - The Dispensary System and the Battle over Liquor in South Carolina, 1907-1915 (Hardcover)
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The Coming of Southern Prohibition - The Dispensary System and the Battle over Liquor in South Carolina, 1907-1915 (Hardcover)
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In The Coming of Southern Prohibition, Michael Lewis examines the
rise and fall of South Carolina's state-run liquor dispensary
system from its emergence in the 1890s until statewide prohibition
in 1915. The dispensary system, requiring government-owned outlets
to bottle and sell all alcohol, began as a way to both avoid
prohibition and enrich governmental coffers. In this revealing
study, Lewis offers a more complete rendering of South Carolina's
path to universal prohibition and thus sharpens our understanding
of historical southern attitudes towards race, religion, and
alcohol. By focusing on the Aiken County border town of North
Augusta, South Carolina, Lewis details how their lucrative
dispensary operation -- which promised to both reduce alcohol
consumption and generate funding for the county's cash-strapped
government -- delayed statewide prohibition by nearly a decade.
Aided by Georgia's adoption of dry laws in 1907, Aiken County
profited from alcohol sales to Georgians crossing the state line to
drink. Lewis shows, in fact, that the Aiken County dispensary at
the foot of the bridge connecting South Carolina to Georgia sold
more liquor than any other store in the state. Notwithstanding the
moral debates surrounding temperance, the money resulting from
dispensary sales helped pave roads, build parks and schools, and
keep county and municipal taxes the lowest in South Carolina. The
power of this revenue is notable, as Lewis reveals, given the
rejection of prohibition laws voiced by the rural, native-born,
Protestant population in Aiken County, which diverged from the
sentiment of their peers in other parts of the region. Lewis's
socio-cultural analysis, which includes the impact of adjacent mill
villages and African American communities, employs statistical
findings to reveal an interplay of political and economic factors
that ultimately overwhelmed any profit margin and ushered in
statewide prohibition in 1915. Original and enlightening, The
Coming of Southern Prohibition explores a single community as it
wrestled with the ethical and financial stakes of alcohol
consumption and sale amid a national discourse that would dominate
American life in the early twentieth century.
General
Imprint: |
Louisiana State University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2016 |
Authors: |
Michael Lewis
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 31mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
277 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8071-6298-9 |
Categories: |
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Humanities >
History >
General
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General
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LSN: |
0-8071-6298-1 |
Barcode: |
9780807162989 |
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