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Biographies of drink : a case study approach to our historical relationship with alcohol / [Edited by ] Mark Hailwood; Deborah Toner
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
255 pages. : illustrations
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 394.13
The burgeoning field of drinking studies, often ranging across and between disciplinary boundaries, explores the place of alcohol in human societies from a very diverse range of perspectives. Whilst some scholars have examined the cultural meanings and social practices associated with alcohol consumption, and its relationship to various forms of identity and community formation, others have focused on attempts to regulate or tax it, its role as a trade commodity, or its medical and psychological effects on consumers. The sheer diversity of issues upon which the study of alcohol and drinking ca.
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Crusade against drink in Victorian England / Lilian Lewis Shiman
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1988.
316 pages.
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 363.410942
Drink, 'the curse of Britain', was sweeping the land, or so it seemed to many Englishmen in the early decades of the nineteenth century. They held it responsible for crime, poverty and many other ills of the rapidly industrializing towns. A 'moderation' temperance reform organized in 1829 largely under middle class auspices soon gave way to a radical commitment to total abstinence in a great variety of worker self-help groups. When these too failed to change the drinking habits of most Englishmen the temperance movement sought new alliances. In the 1870s and 1880s Gospel Temperance married temperance to revivalist religion. It received the support of both established and non-conformist churches, and millions 'took the pledge'. But many did not; and as religious enthusiasm faded the anti-drink forces shifted their attention to the political arena. After successfully pressuring the Liberal Party to adopt limited prohibition, they mounted a great but unsuccessful campaign in the 1895 election. With this defeat the anti-drink crusade disintegrated, leaving the dedicated teetotallers socially isolated in the safe haven of their drink-free subculture.
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Drink : a cultural history of alcohol / Iain Gately
New York, New York : Gotham Books, 2008
633 pages. : illustrations
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 641.21
"Drink" investigates the history of the most Jekyll and Hyde of all fluids--alcohol--and traces humankind's love/hate relationship with it from ancient Egypt to the present day. Gately also provides a history of the world's most famous drinks--and the world's most famous drinkers.
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