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Irish influence on the temperance movement. [PDF]
In May of 2011, the Irish Republic had two very important and historic visitors. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and US President Barack Obama were both officially welcomed by the Irish people to these shores for the first time. The level of preparation was enormous, from security at the various sites both luminaries were visiting, to road upgrades ...
Breen N.
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After the ‘Commune’ and the Franco-Prussian War, the anti-alcohol movement established itself in France as a scientific, elitist and masculine movement. Previous research has shown that women were confined to traditional roles by practices and discourses
Victoria Afanasyeva
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Drikkeskikker og politisk kultur i Telemark på 1800-tallet
In Norway in the 19th and 20th century the consumption of liquor formed the basis for a peculiar political culture manifested in restrictive alcohol legislation in combination with a strong temperance movement.
Ellen Schrumpf
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French Workers and the Temperance Movement [PDF]
In 1852, when the medical discoverer of alcoholism, Magnus Huss, was being honoured by the Académie française, a spokesman for the Académie wrote that “France has many drunkards, but happily, no alcoholics.” Sixty years later, on the eve of World War I, if one is to believe the reports of parliamentary commissions, economists, hygienists and social ...
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Gentle Knights: Masculinity, Teetotalism and Aid for Alcohol Abuse c. 1900
Since 1830 there have been Dutch organisations that were concerned with fighting alcohol abuse. The Drink Law of 1881, the result of their lobby, limited the sale of drink and made the punishment of public drunkenness obligatory.
Gemma Blok
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The transnational factor: The beginnings of South Africa’s women’s movement
The South African women’s movement had its origins in the Cape, but it also had a strong transnational relationship with countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States.
Monica G. Fernandes
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One of the most significant causes of insanity in the nineteenth century was drunkenness. From the beginning of the century, and particularly with the rise of the temperance movement, alcohol abuse became almost synonymous with bodily and mental disease ...
Kostas Makras
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L’antialcoolisme en France comme objet d’histoire : généalogie et perspectives
This article reviews and analyzes the developments in the historiography of French temperance movements. Initially, its history was written by the participants in this movement, alongside the emergence and growth of associations, from the 1830s to the ...
Victoria Afanasyeva
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Karskustöö sünnitab eugeenikaliikumise [PDF]
Estonia between the two world wars was among the few societies in Europe to have a strong eugenics movement (eugenics society was established in 1924) and to accept eugenic legislation (Sterilisation Law from the year 1936).
Ken Kalling
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La Noire Idole : Opium, ivresse et ébriété au XIXe siècle aux Etats-Unis
The concept of drunkenness is hardly a novelty in the 19th century. Defined as a physical and mental reaction to substance intoxication, it has assumed multiple forms and known many interpretations: social transgression, vice, disease, religious ...
Irène Delcourt
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