Fifty Years History of the Temperance Cause: Intemperance the Great National Curse, Threatening the Purity and Stability of Our Institutions, Secular (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781275820814)

Title: Fifty years history of the temperance cause: intemperance the great national curse, threatening the purity and stability of our institutions, secular and religious, the fruitful source of poverty, misery, crime, and degradation of the individual and family ...Author: J E StebbinsPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03493500CollectionID: CTRG00-B2209PublicationDate: 18740101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: "Describing the process of manufacturing liquors, poisonous ingredients used in adulteration, official reports of revenue receipts from its sale: historical sketch of the various means adopted for its suppression through legislation, open and secret temperance societies, Washingtonians, Good Templars, Good Samaritans, Daughters of Samaria, etc., from the first organized society to the present time." "Sold by agents, only."Collation: 13, 17-28, 31-500 p., [2] leaves of plates: ill.; 22 cm

Author: J. E. Stebbins
ISBN-10: 1275820816
ISBN-13: 9781275820814
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Sabin Americana
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2012
Pages: 490
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.91lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.99d