Try to control yourself : the regulation of public drinking in post-prohibition Ontario, 1927-44 / Dan Malleck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malleck, Dan, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Government policy--Ontario.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Ontario--History--20th century.

Liquor laws--Ontario.

Liquor laws.

Temperance--Ontario--History--20th century.

Temperance.

Liquor Control Board of Ontario--History.

Liquor Control Board of Ontario.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Countless authors, historians, journalists, and screenwriters have written about the prohibition era, an age of jazz and speakeasies, gangsters and bootleggers. But only a few have explored what happened when governments turned the taps back on. Dan Malleck shifts the focus to Ontario following repeal of the Ontario Temperance Act, an age when the government struggled to please both the "wets" and the "drys," the latter a powerful lobby that continued to believe that alcohol consumption posed a terrible social danger. Malleck's investigation of regulation in six diverse communities reveals that rather than only pandering to temperance forces, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario sought to define and promote manageable drinking spaces in which citizens would learn to follow the rules of proper drinking and foster self-control. The regulation of liquor consumption was a remarkable bureaucratic balancing act between temperance and its detractors but equally between governance and its ideal drinker.

Contents:

Preface: The Word on the Street

Introduction: The Emergence of Liquor Control Bureaucracy in Ontario

Liquor Control Bureaucracy and the Mechanisms of Governance

The Public Life of Liquor, 1927-34

Idealistic Form and Realistic Function: Restructuring Public Drinking Space

Hearing the Voices: Community Input and the Reshaping of Public Drinking Behaviour

"As a Result of Representations Made": The (Dys)function of Patronage in the LCBO's Regulatory Activities

Restructuring Recreation in the Drinking Space

Women, Children, and the Family in the Public Drinking Space

"Their Medley of Tongues and Eternal Jangle": Regulating the Racial and Ethnic Outsider

Public Drinking and the Challenges of War

Conclusion

Appendix: The Communities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-59669-4

9786613626523

0-7748-2222-8

OCLC:

759669218