Bar wars : contesting the night in contemporary British cities /
Hadfield, Phil.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-316) and index.
The uses of darkness -- Paradise lost : the rise of the night-time High Street -- Behind bars : social control in licensed premises -- Contesting public space -- The combatants -- Rose-coloured spectacles versus the prophecies of doom (the shaping of trial discourse) -- Notes from the frontline : licensing the courts -- Contesting the night -- Shadowing the night people : a methodological postscript.
Sociology, Urban
Central business districts
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Public spaces