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Drink and British politics since 1830 : a study in policy-making / John Greenaway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenaway, J. R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Government policy--Great Britain--History.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Government policy.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 271 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Contents:
- The intangible nature of the Drink question 3
- 2 The Drink Problem in Early Victorian Britain, 1830-70 7
- Six Victorian solutions to the problem 9
- Parliament and liquor licensing, 1830-70 19
- 3 Drink becomes a Party Political Issue, 1870-95 29
- Legislation under Gladstone and Disraeli 30
- Party polarisation on the issue 37
- Licensing and high politics, 1888-95 43
- 4 New Departures and Old Orthodoxies, 1895-1902 53
- New thinking on the Drink issue 53
- The Royal Commission 59
- Reaction to the Royal Commission 63
- Rowntree and Sherwell's new approach 68
- 5 The High Water Mark of Party Political Controversy, 1902-14 73
- The changing social and economic position of the Trade 73
- The 1902 Licensing Act 75
- The 1904 Licensing Act 77
- The 1908 Licensing Bill 81
- Drink and the nature of politics in Edwardian Britain 86
- 6 The First World War: Drink and National Efficiency 91
- National hysteria on Drink 91
- The work of the Central Control Board 97
- Lloyd George and state purchase 107
- 7 The Postwar Settlement, 1919-21 114
- New directions 114
- Controls on production 116
- The future of the CCB and of liquor control 117
- The 1921 licensing compromise 121
- Drink and the new political order 125
- 8 Decades of Improvement: The Interwar Years 130
- Continuation of the old attitudes 130
- The Labour party and the Drink question 133
- The Carlisle scheme 135
- The 'improved' public house and disinterested management 140
- The Royal Commission, 1929-31 145
- New issues: medical aspects; Drink and advertising 147
- 9 Policy Fragmentation 1945-70: Three Case Studies 150
- The New Towns and state control, 1945-52 151
- Policy towards alcoholism, 1945-75 158
- Drink and driving 166
- 10 Epilogue: A Brief Sketch of the Period after 1970 175
- 11 Drink, the Political Process and Policy-Making in Britain 183
- Drink and the British political system 183
- Some comparisons: contrasting policy agendas 196
- Drink and the policy process 198.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333917820
- OCLC:
- 51818612
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