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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holt, Mack P., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--History.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

Alcoholism--History.

Alcoholism.

Bars (Drinking establishments)--History.

Bars (Drinking establishments).

Alcohol Drinking--history.

Alcoholism--history.

Alcoholic Beverages--history.

Medical Subjects:

Alcohol Drinking--history.

Alcoholism--history.

Alcoholic Beverages--history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 246 p. )

Edition:

English edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Berg, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why are we so ambivalent about alcohol? Are we torn between our love of a drink and the need to restrict, or even prohibit, alcohol? How did saloon culture arise in the United States? Why did wine become such a ubiquitous part of French culture?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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781847880956

1847880959

OCLC:

1103218952