Crusade against Drink in Victorian England

Lilian Lewis Shiman

Palgrave Macmillan, 1988

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Drink, 'the curse of Britain', was sweeping the land, or so it seemed to many Englishmen in the early decades of the nineteenth century. A 'moderation' temperance reform organized in 1829 largely under middle class auspices soon gave way to a radical commitment to total abstinence in a great variety of worker self-help groups.

ISBN-13
9780333408865
ISBN-10
0333408861
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1988
Publication date
1988-04-06
Pages
309
Dimensions
216x140x