Jack S Blocker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1269508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack S Blocker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack S |
| FAMILY NAME | Blocker |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCKER J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Huron College, University of Western Ontario |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Thomas Bahde. The Life and Death of Gus Reed: A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Journal Article Thomas Bahde. The Life and Death of Gus Reed: A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Get access Thomas Bahde. The Life and Death of Gus Reed: A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction. (Ohio University Press Series on Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest.) Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 226. Cloth $79.95, paper $29.95. Jack S. Block…
The Class of 1979: A Thirty-Year Retrospective
A Hatchet, a Hole, and a Heel: Signposts for the Next Cohort of Alcohol and Drug Historians
Paul Ortiz - Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida; William P. Jones - The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow…
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Did Prohibition Really Work? Alcohol Prohibition as a Public Health Innovation
The conventional view that National Prohibition failed rests upon an historically flimsy base. The successful campaign to enact National Prohibition was the fruit of a century-long temperance campaign, experience of which led prohibitionists to conclude that a nationwide ban on alcohol was the most promising of the many strategies tried thus far. A sharp rise in consumption during the early 20th century seemed to confirm the bankruptcy of alterna…
Andrew Wiese — Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Tidy Pictures of Messy Behavior
The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, by Andrew E. Hunt
"The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, by Andrew E. Hunt." Canadian Journal of History, 36(2), pp. 395–396
Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933
Bias in Wealth and Income Records: An Ohio Case Study
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Policy, 1880-1920
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880–1920. By Richard F. Hamm. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. x, 341 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-80782181-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4493-4.) Get access Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Huron College, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
A Book for the Nineties
This is a book that could not have been written twenty years ago; at a minimum, it would have been immediately dismissed. Its message would have been ignored or summarily rejected because it calls into question assumptions firmly held by many among the cohort of Americans whose intellectual and personal values were formed or re-formed during the sixties. The sexual revolution, according to John Burnham, was not something made by the babyboom gene…
Consumption and availability of alcoholic beverages in the United States, 1863–1920
Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950
American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform
American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform. Social Movements Past and Present
American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform
Journal Article American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform. By Jack S. Blocker, Jr. (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989. xvi + 199 pp. Cloth, $24.95: paper, $10.95.) Get access Richard Bailey Richard Bailey San Jacinto College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1237–1238, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936605 Published: 01 March 1990
Profits, Power, and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and the Industrializing of America, 1800-1930
Journal Article Profits, Power, and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and the Industrializing of America, 1800–1930. By John J. Rumbarger. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. xxvi + 272 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.95.) Get access Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Huron College, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 10…
Give to the Winds Thy Fears: The Women's Temperance Crusade, 1873-1874
Frances Willard: A Biography
Journal Article Frances Willard: A Biography. By Ruth Bordin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xv + 294 pp. $25.00.) Get access Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Huron College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 193–194, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908575 Published: 01 June 1987
Give to the Winds Thy Fears: The Women's Temperance Crusade, 1873-1874
Journal Article “Give to the Winds Thy Fears”: The Women's Temperance Crusade, 1873–1874. By Jack S. Blocker, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1985. xxi + 280 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, selected sources, and index. $35.00.) Get access Ruth Bordin Ruth Bordin Bentley Library, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, Mar…
Separate Paths: Suffragists and the Women's Temperance Crusade
Drinking in America: A History
Journal Article Drinking in America: A History. By Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin. (New York: Free Press, 1982. xvii + 222 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, sources, and index. $19.95.) Get access Jack S. Blocker Jack S. Blocker Huron College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Page 631, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903488 Publish…
The Crusade Against Drink
A vehement debate over the use of alcoholic beverages raged throughout American society for more than a century. The drink conflict touched on most major issues in American life: social mobility, economic development, family structure, gender roles, political organization, religious experience, immigration, social order and welfare, the relationship between the individual and society, and the role of the state in effecting social change. Groups a…
Vagrancy, Alcoholism and Social Control
Did Prohibition Really Work? Alcohol Prohibition as a Public Health Innovation
The conventional view that National Prohibition failed rests upon an historically flimsy base. The successful campaign to enact National Prohibition was the fruit of a century-long temperance campaign, experience of which led prohibitionists to conclude that a nationwide ban on alcohol was the most promising of the many strategies tried thus far. A sharp rise in consumption during the early 20th century seemed to confirm the bankruptcy of alterna…
Frances Willard: A Biography
Journal Article Frances Willard: A Biography. By Ruth Bordin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xv + 294 pp. $25.00.) Get access Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Huron College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 193–194, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908575 Published: 01 June 1987
Separate Paths: Suffragists and the Women's Temperance Crusade
Consumption and availability of alcoholic beverages in the United States, 1863–1920
Profits, Power, and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and the Industrializing of America, 1800-1930
Journal Article Profits, Power, and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and the Industrializing of America, 1800–1930. By John J. Rumbarger. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. xxvi + 272 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.95.) Get access Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Huron College, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 10…
The Perils of Pluralism
Paul Kleppner, The Cross of Culture: A Social Analysis of Midwestern Politics, 1850-1900. New York: The Free Press, 1970. x + 402 pp., tables, appendixes, notes, bibl., index, $9.00. Richard Jensen, The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. xvii + 357 pp., tables, appendix, notes, guide to sources, index, $12.50. Studies of political behaviour in the late nineteenth century h…
Bias in Wealth and Income Records: An Ohio Case Study
The Triumph of Elites
J. Morgan Kousser. The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suf- frage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. 319 pp. James Edward Wright. The Politics of Populism: Dissent in Colorado. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. 314 pp. The United States, so barren of original political ideas, has been prolific in the creation of political systems. Since the emergence of the Republic, th…
The Politics of Reform: Populists, Prohibition, and Woman Suffrage, 1891–1892
(1972). The Politics of Reform: Populists, Prohibition, and Woman Suffrage, 1891–1892. The Historian: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 614-632
The Perils of Pluralism
Paul Kleppner, The Cross of Culture: A Social Analysis of Midwestern Politics, 1850-1900. New York: The Free Press, 1970. x + 402 pp., tables, appendixes, notes, bibl., index, $9.00. Richard Jensen, The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. xvii + 357 pp., tables, appendix, notes, guide to sources, index, $12.50. Studies of political behaviour in the late nineteenth century h…
The Triumph of Elites
J. Morgan Kousser. The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suf- frage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. 319 pp. James Edward Wright. The Politics of Populism: Dissent in Colorado. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. 314 pp. The United States, so barren of original political ideas, has been prolific in the creation of political systems. Since the emergence of the Republic, th…
The Impulse to Deny: Two Views of the Prohibition Movement
Retreat from Reform: The Prohibition Movement in the United States, 1890-1913
Alcohol, Reform and Society: The Liquor Issue in Social Context. Contributions in American History
The Crusade Against Drink
A vehement debate over the use of alcoholic beverages raged throughout American society for more than a century. The drink conflict touched on most major issues in American life: social mobility, economic development, family structure, gender roles, political organization, religious experience, immigration, social order and welfare, the relationship between the individual and society, and the role of the state in effecting social change. Groups a…
Vagrancy, Alcoholism and Social Control
The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America , by Barbara Leslie Epstein
Drinking in America: A History
Journal Article Drinking in America: A History. By Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin. (New York: Free Press, 1982. xvii + 222 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, sources, and index. $19.95.) Get access Jack S. Blocker Jack S. Blocker Huron College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Page 631, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903488 Publish…
Separate Paths: Suffragists and the Women's Temperance Crusade
Give to the Winds Thy Fears: The Women's Temperance Crusade, 1873-1874
Journal Article “Give to the Winds Thy Fears”: The Women's Temperance Crusade, 1873–1874. By Jack S. Blocker, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1985. xxi + 280 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, selected sources, and index. $35.00.) Get access Ruth Bordin Ruth Bordin Bentley Library, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, Mar…
Frances Willard: A Biography
Journal Article Frances Willard: A Biography. By Ruth Bordin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xv + 294 pp. $25.00.) Get access Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Huron College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 193–194, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908575 Published: 01 June 1987
Give to the Winds Thy Fears: The Women's Temperance Crusade, 1873-1874
American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform
American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform. Social Movements Past and Present
American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform
Journal Article American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform. By Jack S. Blocker, Jr. (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989. xvi + 199 pp. Cloth, $24.95: paper, $10.95.) Get access Richard Bailey Richard Bailey San Jacinto College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1237–1238, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936605 Published: 01 March 1990
Profits, Power, and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and the Industrializing of America, 1800-1930
Journal Article Profits, Power, and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and the Industrializing of America, 1800–1930. By John J. Rumbarger. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. xxvi + 272 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.95.) Get access Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Huron College, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 10…
Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950
A Book for the Nineties
This is a book that could not have been written twenty years ago; at a minimum, it would have been immediately dismissed. Its message would have been ignored or summarily rejected because it calls into question assumptions firmly held by many among the cohort of Americans whose intellectual and personal values were formed or re-formed during the sixties. The sexual revolution, according to John Burnham, was not something made by the babyboom gene…
Consumption and availability of alcoholic beverages in the United States, 1863–1920
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Policy, 1880-1920
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880–1920. By Richard F. Hamm. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. x, 341 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-80782181-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4493-4.) Get access Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Huron College, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
Bias in Wealth and Income Records: An Ohio Case Study
Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933
The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, by Andrew E. Hunt
"The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, by Andrew E. Hunt." Canadian Journal of History, 36(2), pp. 395–396
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