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Book Title
The Coming of Southern Prohibition: The Dispensary System and the
Publication Date
2016-06-06
ISBN
0807162981
Subject Area
Law, Business & Economics, History
Publication Name
Coming of Southern Prohibition : The Dispensary System and the Battle over Liquor in South Carolina, 1907-1915
Publisher
LSU
Item Length
9 in
Subject
Commercial / General, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, Industries / Food Industry
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Michael Lewis
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
Xii, 312 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
LSU
ISBN-10
0807162981
ISBN-13
9780807162989
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219144015

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
Xii, 312 Pages
Publication Name
Coming of Southern Prohibition : The Dispensary System and the Battle over Liquor in South Carolina, 1907-1915
Language
English
Subject
Commercial / General, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, Industries / Food Industry
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Author
Michael Lewis
Subject Area
Law, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2015-043015
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
363.4/10975709041
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
HV5090.S6L49 2016
ebay_catalog_id
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Copyright Date
2016

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