The Surprise of Prohibition

Hoptopia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Kopp
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Willamette Valley ◽  
World War ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Eighteenth Amendment ◽  
The Great War

The threat of prohibition inspired Willamette Valley hop growers to join their farming brethren on the Pacific Coast to enter a political fight. It was a fight, however, that failed, as Oregon voters approved an initiative to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol five years before Congress ratified the Eighteenth Amendment. Many hop growers abandoned the trade in fear of prohibition, along with others farmers that moved in the direction of grain, fruits, and vegetables to help in the World War I era. But those who stayed planted in hops were wise to do so. As the Great War unfolded in Europe, agricultural lands lay ruined. Additionally, Germany’s aggression corroded their hold on the international hop market. Willamette Valley growers seized the opportunity to expand their distribution shortly after the war and through the 1920s. So great was the success that even during Prohibition that eliminated domestic beer markets, Oregon growers expanded acreage in every year of the “dry decade.”

scholarly journals GERMANY THROUGH THE PRISM OF RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA POSTCARDS FROM WORLD WAR I

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3/2) ◽  
pp. 42-53
Author(s):  
E. V. MIRONOVA
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Front Side ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Image Creation ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
The Great War

Our perception of the world and current events is formed through  diverse and often contradictory sources. It is always amended and  augmented throughout the unceasing process of information  consumption. Since the beginning of the XX century this process has  been more and more governed by images. That is why the  great powers drawn in the Great War were actively using visual  materials for propaganda purposes: to steer their people towards  confrontation and to create “the image of the enemy”. The issue “construction of an enemy” does not lose its relevance due to  the fact that today’s media wars propaganda principles and  techniques are still the same as they were one hundred years ago.  The article describes the milestones of the enemy image creation  and gives a thorough analysis of Russian propaganda postcards from the World War I in order to outline the key features of German  enemy figure. The emphasis is made on the idea that the image of  Germany is ambivalent: the country and its citizens were pictured  differently. The postcards serve as sources of the current study since they were one of the main means of communication during the war  time and one of the most effective propaganda tools: people used to  distribute the postcards themselves, thus creating an emotional  bond between the recipient and the image on the front side. The  novelty of the research is attributable to the fact that this issue has  not been considered through the prism of historical imagology. 

scholarly journals Human losses of the Samara Region during the World War I (1914-1918)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-185
Author(s):  
Olga Yuryevna Igoshina
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Data Bank ◽  
Information Resource ◽  
Place Of Death ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Military Rank ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Human Losses

The paper considers the problem of human losses of the Samara province during the World War I for the first time. The author uses the documents posted on the electronic portal Memory of the Heroes of the Great War of 1914-1918, a unique information resource that is the first official bank of original documents of the state and departmental archives of Russia about the participants and events of the World War I. Special attention in this work is paid to irretrievable human losses, as the most severe and irreparable. It is established that the archival materials contain 258,686 records of various types of losses among conscripts from the Samara province, 49,015 of them speak of the dead, those who died of wounds and missing. They accounted for 13% of the total losses of the region. It is revealed that the data bank makes it possible to detail the human damage by cities, counties, volosts of the province, the cause, date and place of death, military rank and participation in strategic operations. The author has concluded that a number of the obtained parameters are related to the specifics of accounting for human losses during the studied period, but the knowledge obtained makes it possible to assess the scale of the demographic catastrophe that shook the country and the province during the World War I.

Equating Temperance with Patriotism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine N. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Temperance Movement ◽  
Selective Service ◽  
Military Involvement ◽  
Eighteenth Amendment ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Military Discipline

This chapter examines the consequences of World War I for Minnesota's temperance movement during the period 1916–1919. The specter and, consequently, the reality of military involvement enhanced the tolerance of many Americans toward restrictive liquor laws they would otherwise not have accepted. The chapter considers how the struggle for prohibition became entangled with the United States's looming military efforts in the Great War and how the war provided an opportunity for temperance reformers to fight for the preservation of military discipline in army camps throughout the United States. Reformers insisted that military efficiency could be achieved only through young soldiers' abstinence and purity, an argument that convinced Congress to pass the Hobson-Sheppard bill, the Selective Service Act, and the Lever Food and Fuel Control Act in 1917. In addition, Progressive reformers waged a social purification campaign. In September 1918, Congress passed the National Prohibition Act, which would function as the enforcement act of the Eighteenth Amendment. The period also saw the demise of German Americans' opposition to Minnesota's temperance movement.

scholarly journals Evolution of British Perceptions of World War I

2019 ◽  
pp. 92-103
Author(s):  
Ekaterina ROMANOVA
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Great War ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
The Great War

In British tradition, the World War I is almost invariably accompanied by the epithet "Great." This war's memory is passed down from generation to generation, living in family archives and museum collections. However, British views on the Great War have evolved over the course of a century. The article examines how, among intellectual and political elite, the perception of the WWI has been changing and correlating with domestic and world developments.

A Splendid Storehouse of Facts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah M. Griffith
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
International Education ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
National Committee ◽  
World War ◽  
American Missionaries ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Social Scientific

World War I shocked the internationalist sensibilities of American liberal Protestants, and they responded in the postwar era with renewed efforts to promote cultural and international education, anti-imperialism, and racial understanding to prevent future wars. Following their return from service in Japan, American missionaries leveraged relationships with powerful lay supporters to establish the Survey of Race Relations, an ambitious social scientific study that sought to identify the root causes of Asian-white racial discord on the Pacific Coast. Combining forces with religious lobbies like the National Committee on American-Japanese Relations, American missionaries launched a powerful attack on nativists on the Pacific Coast and in Congress in the years leading up to the 1924 Immigration Act.

scholarly journals A transnational history of the World War I in Jay Winter’s research

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-101
Author(s):  
Nikolai V. Hlibischuk
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Transnational History ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
World War ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Great War

Based on the example of the scientific research of the famous american historian Jay Winter, the transnational approach and its advantages in the study of the World War I were analyzed in the article. The attention is paid to the characteristics of this method and its features. According to Jay Winter, transnational dimension of the Great War of 1914–1918 allows to go beyond the narrow national narrative and look at it from the new position, the questions which were studied a long time ago can be inserted in the broad global context and to rethink the meaning and consequences of this global conflict. The author also tried to outline the research perspectives and opportunities which are open in applying this approach.

GERMANY’S IMAGE IN THE RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA POSTCARDS FROM THE WORLD WAR I

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizaveta V. Mironova
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Front Side ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Image Creation ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
The Great War

Our perception of the world and current events is formed through diverse and often contradictory sources. It is always amended und augmented throughout the unceasing process of information consumption. Since the beginning of the XXth century this process has been more and more governed by images. That is why the great powers drawn in the Great War were actively using visual materials for propaganda purposes: to steer their people towards confrontation and to create “the image of the enemy”. The issue “construction of an enemy” does not lose its relevance due to the fact that today’s media wars propaganda principles and techniques are still the same as they were one hundred years ago. The article describes the milestones of the enemy image creation and gives a thorough analysis of Russian propaganda postcards from the World War I in order to outline the key features of German enemy figure. The emphasis is made on the idea that the image of Germany is ambivalent: the country and its citizens were pictured differently. The postcards serve as sources of the current study since they were one of the main means of communication during the war time and one of the most effective propaganda tools: people used to distribute the postcards themselves, thus creating an emotional bond between the recipient and the image on the front side. The novelty of the research is attributable to the fact that this issue has not been considered through the prism of historical imagology.

scholarly journals Nadvojvoda Evgen 1863-1954

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-213
Author(s):  
Gregor Antoličič
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
The South ◽  
Military Career ◽  
The Core ◽  
South West ◽  
The World ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Great War

ARCHDUKE EUGEN 1863–1954In the article Archduke Eugen 1863–1954 the author deals with the basic biography of Archduke Eugen from his birth until the first months after the Italian involvement into World War I. Archduke Eugen was born in 1863 as a member of the Habsburg dynasty. During his lifetime Eugen achieved a magnificent military career, culminating during the World War I. In fact, after Oskar Potiorek had left the position of the Commander of the Balkan Army, Eugen became his successor. Archduke Eugen remained in this position until May 1915, when Italy entered the war. At this time he became the Commander of the newly-established Command of the South-West Front. From the Slovenian perspective this fact matters not only because the Isonzo Front was under this Command, but also because between May 1915 and March 1916 as well as between March 1917 and November 1917 the headquarters of the Command of the South-West Front were located in the Slovenian city of Maribor. Because of the presence of this Command during the Great War, this city by the river Drava attained an exceptional position in comparison with other Slovenian cities. Archduke Eugen and the renowned Svetozar Boroević von Bojna represent the key protagonists of the organisation and implementation of military actions on the Isonzo battlefield. The core of this article consists of the presentation of the military career of Archduke Eugen, which led him to attain important positions since the beginning of World War I. At the same time the article represents a foundation for the further research of Archduke Eugen's activities during World War I.

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