...Chapter 2 centers on Edmund Spenser’s treatment of temperance, embodied in the management of Alma’s castle (The Faerie Queene, Book 2). This episode is often read as an endorsement of the Protestant values ideologically underpinning English colonial rule—the castle must be defended from a vaguely...

...Chapter four illuminates the central role that physicians played in the nationwide temperance movement, the importance of temperance to the developing professional identity of American doctors, and the relationship between medicine, temperance, and popular health movements. The chapter describes...

... Workingmen’s Party of California. Cogswell’s ulterior motive for his monument—confessed to his future recipients—was to instill temperance and a capitalist work ethic among the poor, thereby discouraging them from becoming “hoodlums” or Kearneyite revolutionaries. Despite its apparent boosterism, the project...

... encyclopedias Meinel Christoph physicians Roche Daniel Cusin cafétier disgust ragoût medical faculties spiritus rector Caille Claude Antoine Cornet physician humoral medicine poison Société Royale de Médecine Paris absolutism Schivelbusch Wolfgang temperance intemperance Geoffroy Étienne Louis...

..., temperance, and glory. The intellectual virtues hold a comparatively minor place in the Maintenonian universe. Wisdom is more a type of prudence than of intellectual prowess. addresses Against Religious Innovations aristocracy and addresses to students convents and addresses to students courage...

...This chapter explores the three immensely popular cultural phenomena that center around water: the sanitary movement, the temperance crusade, and the water cure. All of these groups claimed that water would effectively combat the ills and evils of urban life. These groups argued that cities...

... Langston Edwards Jonathan Great Awakening Second Lincoln Abraham slavery Boston Female Anti Slavery Society bonfire of the vanities Davenport James Finley James Great Awakening and emotion Noyes Joseph Christ Second Coming American Temperance Union Clark Norman H Cold War Hofstadter Richard...

... Abraham Lincoln ‘living history’ temperance and citizenship Declaration of Independence Kansas-Nebraska Bill Second Inaugural Address Civil War Horace Greeley Lincoln as pharmakos Fourteenth Amendment A plain man of the people, an extraordinary fortune attended him. He offered no shining...

...Before national prohibition could be implemented, completing the evolution from voluntary temperance to nationwide policy, its defenders had to reconcile the restriction of alcohol with some of the key ideological elements of American political thought. This meant that, although John Stuart Mill...

...Both the imagery of witchcraft and the confessions of individual witches should be seen not as expressions of a peculiarly African mentality but of a struggle that may be discerned in every human family or close community to temper the resentment and envy that arise whenever temperamentally...

.... Comparatively well-funded white suffragists of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and National American Woman Suffrage Association formed press committees to design propaganda that pictured them as beautiful, patriotic mothers, obscuring black women’s activism. Prince George Terrell Mary Church black...

..., Wiggin’s student at the California Kindergarten Training School. As the Women’s Christian Temperance Union escalated its campaign in California, Betts repurposed a saloon, turning a disreputable male preserve into a woman’s space, the West Oakland Free Kindergarten. During the devastating 1890s depression...

... on Pathological Anatomy Horner Cass Lewis Congressional Temperance Society delirium tremens and alcohol addiction Democratic Party Diagrams of the Human Stomach in Various Conditions Sewall Frelinghuysen Theodore Harvard College Kentucky magic lantern Marshall John Marshall Thomas F Warren John C...

...This chapter focuses on the voluntary civil society developments molding the American republic through voluntary association. It pays particular attention to the role of the first mass moral reform movement, the temperance societies, and to the evangelical reform leadership of Lyman Beecher who...

...6. Boston Temperance Society, membership certificate of Samuel A. Clarke, Nov. 11, 1843, Certificate File, PR 014, New-York Historical Society. The first generations of American citizens learned a great deal about how to join together in ways voluntary, effective, and safe for both the republic...

...This chapter examines the close relationship between feasting and systematic ethics, both in practice and through the iconographic conventions of histories, romances, philosophical texts and behavioural manuals. Feasting was regularly used to visualize the cardinal virtue temperance, which promoted...