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"Prohibition Is Here to Stay" - Jason S. Lantzer

"Prohibition Is Here to Stay"

The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in America
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2009
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-03383-5 (ISBN)
CHF 48,85 inkl. MwSt
Edward S. Shumaker's life and work in Indiana sheds new light on the rise and fall of Prohibition and the interplay of religion and politics in American culture.
Prohibition Is Here to Stay focuses on the Reverend Edward S. Shumaker, a Methodist minister who for nearly twenty-five years led Indiana's influential chapter of the Anti Saloon League. Shumaker was one of the most powerful men in Indiana in the fight against demon rum, and his influence extended well beyond the boundaries of the state during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jason Lantzer uses Shumaker's life and work to shed new light on the rise and fall of Prohibition and to better understand and appreciate the interplay of religion and politics in American culture.


Drawing on Shumaker's personal papers as well as archival work, Lantzer argues that understanding the role of religious faith and in particular evangelical Protestantism is essential to understanding Prohibition. Shumaker's religious faith inspired his crusade against alcohol and his efforts to make the Indiana Anti Saloon League one of the strongest political pressure groups in the country. Lantzer argues that Edward Shumaker's life and the cause to which he devoted most of it were not aberrations but exemplars of central currents in American culture of the time. Lantzer also connects Shumaker and the prohibition movement in Indiana to larger issues of America's transition from a predominantly rural society to an urban culture, with the attendant fears of change, loss of values, the impact of industrialization, and foreign immigration.

Jason S. Lantzer is an adjunct history faculty member of Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, and Butler University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.5.2009
Zusatzinfo 3 Halftones, unspecified
Verlagsort Notre Dame IN
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 472 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-268-03383-8 / 0268033838
ISBN-13 978-0-268-03383-5 / 9780268033835
Zustand Neuware
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