Alcohol
Subtitle: a social and cultural history
By: edited by Mack P. Holt.
Contributors: Holt, Mack P.
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781845201661; 9781845201654
Subjects: Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- History.; Alcoholism -- History.; Bars (Drinking establishments) -- History.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To your health : wine as food and medicine in mid-sixteenth-century Italy / Ken Albala; title: Europe divided : wine, beer, and the Reformation in sixteenth-century Europe / Mack P. Holt; title: In the public sphere : efforts to curb the consumption of rum in Connecticut, 1760-1820 / David W. Conroy; title: In vino veritas : the construction of alcoholic disease in liberal Italy, 1880-1914 / Paul A. Garfinkel; title: Mon docteur le vin : wine and health in France, 1900-1950 / Kim Munholland; title: Drinking and alehouses in the diary of an English mercer's apprentice, 1663-1674 / A. Lynn Martin; title: Taverns and the public sphere in the French Revolution / Thomas Brennan; title: Drink, sociability, and social class in France, 1789-1945 : the emergence of a proletarian public sphere / W. Scott Haine; title: The lore of the brotherhood : continuity and change in urban American saloon culture, 1870-1920 / Madelon M. Powers; title: "To the king o'er the water" : Scotland and claret, c. 1660-1763" / Charles Cameron Ludington; title: Revenue and revelry on tap : the Russian tavern / Patricia Herlihy; title: Drinking the good life : Australia c. 1880-1980 / Diane Kirkby; title: Kaleidoscope in motion : drinking in the United States, 1400-2000 / Jack S. Blocker, Jr.