{"product_id":"grappling-with-demon-rum-the-cultural-struggle-over-liquor-in-early-oklahoma-hardcover","title":"Grappling with Demon Rum: The Cultural Struggle Over Liquor in Early Oklahoma - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames E. Klein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSocial classes collide over morality and social propriety in a brand-new state\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWell before the Volstead (or National Prohibition) Act of 1919, Oklahoma was dry. Oklahomans banned liquor at their state's inception in 1907 and maintained the ban even after the repeal of national prohibition. In this book, James E. Klein examines the social and cultural conflicts that led Oklahomans to outlaw liquor and discusses the economic and political consequences of the ban.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrappling with Demon Rum\u003c\/em\u003e identifies who favored and who opposed prohibition, showing that its proponents were largely middle-class citizens who disdained public drinking establishments and who sought respectability for a young state still considered a frontier society. Klein tells how the Oklahoma Anti-Saloon League orchestrated a dry campaign to raise moral standards, reduce crime, and improve the quality of life, twice convincing voters to support prohibition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoing beyond the usual evangelical-versus-ritualist, rural-versus-urban, and ethnocultural oppositions used by other historians to explain prohibition, Klein shows that Oklahoma's immigrant and Catholic populations were too small to account for those voting against the measure--or for the large customer base that supported bootleggers. He points instead to the large number of working-class Oklahomans who patronized saloons, whether legal or not, and focuses on class conflict in early efforts to control alcohol. He also describes the trials of enforcement officers who worked to plug leaks in statewide and later national prohibition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA cultural and social history of liquor in early Oklahoma, \u003cem\u003eGrappling with Demon Rum\u003c\/em\u003e provides a fresh look at crusaders against vice at the regional level. In portraying this conflict between middle- and working-class definitions of social propriety, Klein provides new insight into forces at work throughout America during the Progressive Era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 238\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oklahoma Book Award (2009)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757657325856,"sku":"9780806139388","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8f093c6b27813bf3025202128345f869.webp?v=1780107973","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/grappling-with-demon-rum-the-cultural-struggle-over-liquor-in-early-oklahoma-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}