Alcohol

A Social and Cultural History
Herausgeber: Holt, Mack P.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berg 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9781845201661
• ISBN-10: 1845201663
• Artikelnr.: 21507707

Autorenporträt

Mack Holt is Professor of History at George Mason University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Alcohol in Early Modern Europe, ca. 1500
1800 * 'The Art of Drinking in Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Century Europe'
Ken Albala, University of the Pacific * 'Europe Divided: Wine and Beer in the Reformation'
Mack P. Holt, George Mason University * 'Drinking and Alehouses in the Diary of an English Mercer's Apprentice, 1663
1674'
A.Lynn Martin, University of Adelaide * '"To the King o'er the Water": Scotland and Claret, c. 1660
1763'
Charles Cameron Ludington, Columbia University * 'Taverns and the Public Sphere in the French Revolution'
Thomas Brennan, United States Naval AcademyPart II: Alcohol in Modern Europe, 1800 to the Present'Drink, Sociability and Class in France, 1789
1945'
W. Scott Haine, University of Maryland, University College * 'Mon docteur le vin: Wine and Health in France, 1900
1950'
Kim Mulholland, University of Minnesota * ' A Social History of the Russian Tavern (Kabak)'
Patricia Herlihy, Brown University * 'In Vino Veritas: The Construction of Alcoholic Disease in Liberal Italy, 1880
1914'
Paul A. Garfinkel, Harvard UniversityPart III: Alcohol in the New World * 'Drinking in the United States: A Kaleidoscope in Motion, 1600
2000'
Jack S. Blocker, Jr., University of Western Ontario * 'Tippling Philosophers: Taverns, Drink, and the Expansion of the Public Sphere in Southern New England, 1740
1820'
David W. Conroy, Independent Scholar * 'The Lore of the Brotherhood: Continuity and Change in Urban American Saloon Culture, 1870
1920'
Madelon M. Powers, University of New Orleans * 'Drinking the Good Life: Australia c.1880
1980'
Diane Kirkby, La Trobe University