The problem of drunkenness played an important role in ruling class perceptions of the laboring classes in the early modern English Atlantic. Previous studies addressing alcohol consumption in the English Atlantic have focused on production and the social role of taverns and ale…
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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…
This dissertation examines the relationship between Baptists and social reform from 1770 through 1860. Chapter one examines two explanations to the social movements of this period. Attention is given to the tension between personal piety and social activism inherent in Baptist l…
Officials from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, identified Cuba as a fertile missionary field shortly after the island's liberation from Spain in 1898. This work will argue that Methodist missionaries working in Cuba did not view the saving of souls or the extension of Ame…