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Book The Drunkard s Progress

Download or read book The Drunkard s Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drunkard s Progress

Download or read book Drunkard s Progress written by John W. Crowley and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-04-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twelve-step" recovery programs for a wide variety of addictive behaviors have become tremendously popular in the 1990s. According to John W. Crowley, the origin of these movements—including Alcoholics Anonymous—lies in the Washingtonian Temperance Society, founded in Baltimore in the 1840s. In lectures, pamphlets, and books (most notably John B. Gough's Autobiography, published in 1845), recovering "drunkards" described their enslavement to and liberation from alcohol. Though widely circulated in their time, these influential temperance narratives have been largely forgotten. In Drunkard's Progress, Crowley presents a collection of revealing excerpts from these texts along with his own introductions. The tales, including "The Experience Meeting," from T. S. Arthur's Six Nights with the Washingtonians (1842), and the autobiographical Narrative of Charles T. Woodman, A Reformed Inebriate (1843), still speak with suprising force to the miseries of drunkenness and the joys of deliverance. Contemporary readers familiar with twelve-step programs, Crowley notes, will feel a shock of recognition as they relate to the experience, strength, and hope of these old-time—but nonetheless timely—narratives of addiction, despair, and recovery. "I arose, reached the door in safety, and, passing the entry, entered my own room and closed the door after me. To my amazement the chairs were engaged in chasing the tables round the room; to my eye the bed appeared to be stationary and neutral, and I resolved to make it my ally; I thought it would be safest to run, as by that means I should reach it sooner, but in the attempt I found myself instantly prostrate on the floor . . . How long I slept I know not; but when I awoke I was still on the floor, and alone . . . I have since been through all the heights, and depths, and labyrinths of misery; but never, no never, have I felt again the unutterable agony of that moment. I wept, I groaned, I actually tore my hair; I did every thing but the one thing that could have saved me."—from Confessions of a Female Inebriate, excerpted in Drunkard's Progress

Book The Drunkard s Progress

Download or read book The Drunkard s Progress written by George William MacArthur Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Drunkard s Progress

Download or read book The Drunkard s Progress written by William Arnot and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Drunkards Progress  Or the Direct Road to Poverty  Wretchedness   Ruin     Designed and Published by J W  Barber  New Haven  Conn   1827   Original Plate Revised and Republished by John W  Barber

Download or read book The Drunkards Progress Or the Direct Road to Poverty Wretchedness Ruin Designed and Published by J W Barber New Haven Conn 1827 Original Plate Revised and Republished by John W Barber written by John W. Barber and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Liquor Problem

Download or read book The Liquor Problem written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Drunkard s Progress

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  • Author : William Arnot
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-05-11
  • ISBN : 9780461910117
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book The Drunkard s Progress written by William Arnot and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Book A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government

Download or read book A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government written by Nakae Chomin and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government takes the form of a debate between a spokesman for Western ideals of democracy and progress, and an advocate for adherence to traditional samurai values. Their discussion is moderated by the imperturbable Master Nankai, who loves nothing more than to drink and argue politics. The fiction of the drinking bout allowed Chomin to debate freely topical political issues, in a discussion that offers an astute analysis of contemporary European politics and a prophetic vision of Japan's direction. This lucid and precise translation of a delightful work has been designated one of the UNESCO series of classics of world literature.

Book The Drunkard s Progress  Being a Few Sober Hints from Daniel Drinkwater  to His Worthy and Esteemed Friend  Dominie Dribble Esquire

Download or read book The Drunkard s Progress Being a Few Sober Hints from Daniel Drinkwater to His Worthy and Esteemed Friend Dominie Dribble Esquire written by Daniel Drinkwater and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bottle and the Drunkard s Children

Download or read book The Bottle and the Drunkard s Children written by George Cruikshank and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Alcohol and Public Policy

Download or read book Alcohol and Public Policy written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1981-02-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Alcoholic Republic

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  • Author : W.J. Rorabaugh
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1981-09-17
  • ISBN : 0199766312
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Alcoholic Republic written by W.J. Rorabaugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1981-09-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rorabaugh has written a well thought out and intriguing social history of Americas great alcoholic binge that occurred between 1790 and 1830, what he terms a key formative period in our history....A pioneering work that illuminates a part of our heritage that can no longer be neglected in future studies of Americas social fabric. A bold and frequently illuminating attempt to investigate the relationship of a single social custom to the central features of our historical experience....A book which always asks interesting questions and provides many provocative answers.

Book Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Download or read book Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain written by Thora Hands and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the drink industry and by increasingly restrictive licensing laws. Politics and commerce co-existed with moral and medical concerns about drunkenness and combined, these factors pushed alcohol consumers into the public spotlight. Through an analysis of public and private records, medical texts and sociological studies, the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ideas about alcohol that circulated in the period. This book shows that they had many reasons for purchasing and consuming alcoholic substances and these were driven by broader social, cultural, medical and commercial factors. Although drunkenness may have been the most visible consequence of alcohol consumption, it was not the only type of drinking behaviour. Alcohol played an important social role in the everyday lives of Victorians and Edwardians where its consumption held many different meanings.

Book Drunks

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  • Author : Christopher Finan
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release : 2017-06-27
  • ISBN : 0807001791
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Drunks written by Christopher Finan and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the history of our struggle with alcoholism and the emergence of a search for sobriety that is as old as our nation. In Drunks, Christopher Finan introduces us to a colorful cast of characters who were integral in America’s moral journey to understanding alcoholism. There's the remarkable Iroquois leader named Handsome Lake, a drunk who stopped drinking and dedicated his life to helping his people achieve sobriety. In the early nineteenth century, the idealistic and energetic “Washingtonians,” a group of reformed alcoholics, led the first national movement to save men like themselves. After the Civil War, doctors began to recognize that chronic drunkenness is an illness, and Dr. Leslie Keeley invented a “gold cure” that was dispensed at more than a hundred clinics around the country. But most Americans rejected a scientific explanation of alcoholism. A century after the ignominious death of Charles Adams came Carrie Nation. The wife of a drunk, she destroyed bars with a hatchet in her fury over what alcohol had done to her family. Prohibition became the law of the land, but nothing could stop the drinking. Finan also tells the dramatic story of Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, who helped each other stay sober and then created AA, which survived its tumultuous early years and finally proved that alcoholics could stay sober for a lifetime. This is narrative history at its best: entertaining and authoritative, an important portrait of one of America’s great liberation movements and essential reading for anyone involved in the addiction community.

Book The Monthly herald

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1858
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 930 pages

Download or read book The Monthly herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: