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1 online resource (282 pages) |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index. |
| Contents |
A monstrous plant : alcohol and the Reformation -- Healths, toasts and pledges : political drinking in the seventeenth century -- A new kind of drunkenness : the gin craze -- The politics of sobriety : coffee and society in Georgian England -- A fascinating poison : early medical writing on drink -- Ungovernable passions : intoxication and Romanticism -- Odious monopolies : power, control and the 1830 Beer Act -- The last tyrant : the rise of temperance -- A monstrous theory : the politics of prohibition -- The State and the trade : the drink question at the turn of the century -- Central control : war and nationalism -- The study of inebriety : medicine and the law -- The pub and the people : drinking places and popular culture -- Prevention and health : alcohol and public health -- Beer orders : the changing landscape in the 1990s -- Drinking responsibly : media, government and binge drinking -- Conclusion : the drink question today. |
| Summary |
Questions about drink -- how it is used, how it should be regulated, and the social risks it presents -- have been the source of dispute in recent years. The author puts these concerns in historical context by providing a survey of public debates on alcohol from the introduction of licensing in the mid-sixteenth century through to recent controversies over 24-hour licensing, binge-drinking and the cheap sale of alcohol in supermarkets. He shows that concerns over drinking have always been inextricably tied to broader questions about national identity, individual freedom and the relationship between government and the market. He argues that in order to properly understand the cultural status of alcohol we need to consider what attitudes to drinking tell us about the principles that underpin our modern, liberal society. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- England -- History.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects -- England.
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Liquor laws -- England.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
9780719077050 |
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0719077052 |
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9780719086373 paperback |
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9781847797070 epub |
| Standard No. |
heb40118 hdl |
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