This dissertation illumines the religious ethos of late Victorian America through the lens of one of the most controversial yet misunderstood personalities of the time: Carry Nation. She has been caricatured in popular mythology as a fanatical, hysterical, redneck, hatchet-wield…
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This dissertation analyzes the rise of opium Prohibition in colonial Southeast Asia. Over the course of six decades spanning the turn of the 20th century, European powers in the region abandoned opium as a lucrative source of revenue, denouncing as dangerous what had once been d…
This thesis explores the origins, impacts, and decline of Prohibition in the city and county of San Diego, California. Beginning with San Diego’s relationship with alcohol and alcohol-control in the nineteenth century and ending with the repeal of national Prohibition in 1933, t…
This project explains the conditions under which American social movements that begin their mobilization through peaceful, lawful acts of protest become politically violent. To do so, I propose and develop a new, unifying framework called the state legitimacy framework. The stat…
L’histoire de l’alcool en Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick dans les années 1879- 1939 est traversée par une série de bouleversements politiques, religieux, sociaux et économiques. La population acadienne, chez qui le monde de l’alcool est bien ancré culturellement, et dont l’identité…