Alcohol : a social and cultural history / edited by Mack P. Holt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holt, Mack P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--History.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

Alcoholism--History.

Alcoholism.

Bars (Drinking establishments)--History.

Bars (Drinking establishments).

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 246 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.

Summary:

Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History examines these questions and many more as it considers how drink has evolved in its functions and uses from the late Middle Ages to the present day in the West. Alcohol has long played an important role in societies throughout history, and understanding its consumption can reveal a great deal about a culture. This book discusses a range of issues, including domestic versus recreational use, the history of alcoholism, and the relationship between alcohol and violence, religion, sexuality, and medicine. It looks at how certain forms of alcohol speak about class, gender and place.

Drawing on examples from Europe, North America and Australia, this book provides an overview of the many roles alcohol has played over the past five centuries.

Contents:

To your health : wine as food and medicine in mid-sixteenth-century Italy / Ken Albala

Europe divided : wine, beer, and the Reformation in sixteenth-century Europe / Mack P. Holt

In the public sphere : efforts to curb the consumption of rum in Connecticut, 1760-1820 / David W. Conroy

In vino veritas : the construction of alcoholic disease in liberal Italy, 1880-1914 / Paul A. Garfinkel

Mon docteur le vin : wine and health in France, 1900-1950 / Kim Munholland

Drinking and alehouses in the diary of an English mercer's apprentice, 1663-1674 / A. Lynn Martin

Taverns and the public sphere in the French Revolution / Thomas Brennan

Drink, sociability, and social class in France, 1789-1945 : the emergence of a proletarian public sphere / W. Scott Haine

The lore of the brotherhood : continuity and change in urban American saloon culture, 1870-1920 / Madelon M. Powers

"To the king o'er the water" : Scotland and claret, c. 1660-1763" / Charles Cameron Ludington

Revenue and revelry on tap : the Russian tavern / Patricia Herlihy

Drinking the good life : Australia c. 1880-1980 / Diane Kirkby

Kaleidoscope in motion : drinking in the United States, 1400-2000 / Jack S. Blocker, Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1845201655

1845201663

OCLC:

62408695

Publisher Number:

9781845201654

9781845201661

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