I would (not terribly modestly) point you towards my book on Father
Mathew in Ireland, (Father Mathew, Temperance, Irish Identity, IAP,
2002)whose movement I think was inspirational for the Washingtonians...


I tried to address (and indeed orient the book around) just this
question.

The point about Mathew's movement is precisely that it was a (largely)
unanticipated bubbling up of anti-alcohol fervor from the bottom up...

You should certainly also look at John Quinn's work on the same
movement.

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From: Alcohol and Drugs History Society
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Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:46 PM
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Subject: Re: popular temperance movements

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