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>Sender:       Alcohol and Temperance History Group <[log in to unmask]>
>Poster:       Maria Swora <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      Re: washingtonianism
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Maria.  I just returned from vacation and found a brief discussion of
Washingtonianism on my email.  As to your interest in post-bellum groups of
a similar sort.  Yes, there were many.  I have referred to them as
neo-Washingtonian organizations.  They represent a tradition that remained
very much alive in evangelical circles in particular.  See:  Jim Baumohl,
"Inebriate Institutions in North America, 1840-1920."  In Cheryl Warsh, ed.,
Drink In Canada (mcGill-Queens, 1993).  Also, Jim Baumohl, "On Asylums,
Homes, and Moral Treatment:  The Case of the San Francisco Home for the Care
of Inebriates, 1859-1870."  Contemporary Drug Problems, 13 (1986), 395-446.
 
jim baumohl
 
>Hello all,
>
>All this talk about the Washingtonians has reminded me of a question that
>came up in my thesis defense.  Were there postbellum voluntary associations
>similar to the Washingtonians and other temperance associations?
>
>My MA is in anthropology, and the thesis concerned AA. The Washingtonians
>provided a point of comparison.
>
>Maria Swora
>Dept Anthropology
>University of Rochester
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