Author: Wilbur Fisk Crafts
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Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Intoxicating Drinks & Drugs in All Lands and Times
Author: Wilbur Fisk Crafts
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Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Publisher:
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Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs
Author: Andrew Monteith
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479817929
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Recovers the religious origins of the War on Drugs Many people view the War on Drugs as a contemporary phenomenon invented by the Nixon administration. But as this new book shows, the conflict actually began more than a century before, when American Protestants began the temperance movement and linked drug use with immorality. Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs argues that this early drug war was deeply rooted in Christian impulses. While many scholars understand Prohibition to have been a Protestant undertaking, it is considerably less common to consider the War on Drugs this way, in part because racism has understandably been the focal point of discussions of the drug war. Antidrug activists expressed—and still do express--blatant white supremacist and nativist motives. Yet this book argues that that racism was intertwined with religious impulses. Reformers pursued the “civilizing mission,” a wide-ranging project that sought to protect “child races” from harmful influences while remodeling their cultures to look like Europe and the United States. Most reformers saw Christianity as essential to civilization and missionaries felt that banning drugs would encourage religious conversion and progress. This compelling work of scholarship radically reshapes our understanding of one of the longest and most damaging conflicts in modern American history, making the case that we cannot understand the War on Drugs unless we understand its religious origins.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479817929
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Recovers the religious origins of the War on Drugs Many people view the War on Drugs as a contemporary phenomenon invented by the Nixon administration. But as this new book shows, the conflict actually began more than a century before, when American Protestants began the temperance movement and linked drug use with immorality. Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs argues that this early drug war was deeply rooted in Christian impulses. While many scholars understand Prohibition to have been a Protestant undertaking, it is considerably less common to consider the War on Drugs this way, in part because racism has understandably been the focal point of discussions of the drug war. Antidrug activists expressed—and still do express--blatant white supremacist and nativist motives. Yet this book argues that that racism was intertwined with religious impulses. Reformers pursued the “civilizing mission,” a wide-ranging project that sought to protect “child races” from harmful influences while remodeling their cultures to look like Europe and the United States. Most reformers saw Christianity as essential to civilization and missionaries felt that banning drugs would encourage religious conversion and progress. This compelling work of scholarship radically reshapes our understanding of one of the longest and most damaging conflicts in modern American history, making the case that we cannot understand the War on Drugs unless we understand its religious origins.
The Social Sciences
Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Author: Johann Jakob Herzog
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Intoxicating Drinks and Drugs in All Lands and Times
Author: Mary Leitch
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781343141667
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781343141667
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
American Book Publishing Record
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1658
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1658
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Theodore Roosevelt Collection; Dictionary Catalogue and Shelflist
Author: Harvard University. Library
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Union Catalog of the Graduate Theological Union
Author: Graduate Theological Union. Library
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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Publisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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