Moonshiners and prohibitionists [electronic resource] : the battle over alcohol in southern Appalachia / Bruce E. Stewart.

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2011.

1 online resource (xii, 325 p.) : ill.

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Stewart chronicles the social tensions that accompanied the region's early transition from a rural to an urban-industrial economy. He analyses the dynamic relationship of the bootleggers and opponents of liquor sales in western North Carolina, as well as conflict driven by social and economic development that manifested in political discord.

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September 18, 2015

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