Gretchen --
   1. it seems to me stuff on the Washingtonian era in the US deals with 
popular movements.  
   Related to this, see Jim Baumohl's dissertation for the early years of the 
Dashaways in San Francisco:
  Baumohl, James Andrew. Dashaways and doctors: the treatment of habitual 
drunkards in San Francisco from the Gold Rush to Prohibition. DSW diss., U of 
California, Berkeley, 1986.
  The published paper from this, as I remember, is less about the D's popular 
roots:    Baumohl-J.  "On asylums, homes, and moral treatment: The case of the 
San Francisco Home for the Care of the Inebriate, 1859-1870." Contemporary Drug 
Problems  13:395-445, 1986.

   2.  The Nordic temperance movements were genuine and large popular 
movements.  See Johansson's piece in the following for a window into this 
literature (unfortunately for us, a lot of it is in Nordic languages): 
http://www.nad.fi/index.php?lang=se&id=pub/39

   3. You might use Harry Levine's paper as a source of references:
http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/Staff/levine/temp-cult.htm
   Note that Zielinski used Poland to argue that Harry was wrong about 
temperance and Protestantism:   Zielinski, A.  "Polish culture: Dry or wet" 
Contemporary Drug Problems, 21(2):329-340, 1994.  I wonder whether you would 
have the same argument for Mexico.

   4. Related to this, Mexcio really stands out these days for the strength of 
its AA movements.  You might want to draw on material on this as a contemporary 
reference point.  See Stanley Brandes' book and also pieces by Haydee Rosovsky:
      Rosovsky, H.; Garcia, G.; Gutierrez, R.; Casanova, L.  "Al-Anon groups in 
Mexico" Contemporary Drug Problems, 19(4):587-603, 1992.
      chapter by her in: http://www.nad.fi/index.php?lang=se&id=pub/33

   Cheers, Robin



On 2006-09-27, at 22:10, Gretchen Pierce wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> As some of you might know, I'm writing my dissertation on the 
> anti-alcohol campaign in Mexico in the 1920s and 30s.  I'm examining it 
> on the national, state, and local levels.  I have found lots of great 
> comparative literature, but I've found that most people talk about 
> temperance movements from above (either from the point of view of 
> governments or of upper/middle class reformers).  Can anyone point me 
> to a body of literature from any region, any time period, that looks at 
> popular temperance movements?
>
> Thanks,
> Gretchen Pierce
> Adjunct Instructor
> Indiana University Northwest
> Ph.D. Candidate
> University of Arizona