Alcohol and Moral Regulation: Public Attitudes, Spirited Measures and Victorian Hangovers

ISBN-13: 9781447309932 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 256 str.

Henry Yeomans

Opis

Attitudes toward alcoholand the extent and rate of its consumptionhave undergone considerable changes over the centuries. In the face of contemporary concern with increased drinking, "Alcohol and Moral Regulation" offers a refreshing historical perspective, explaining that anxieties about alcohol are perhaps best understood as a hangover from the Victorian period. Drawing on extensive historical research, the volume puts contemporary attitudes in context, and thus gives scholars and policy makers alike a more nuanced way to approach analyses of, and approaches to, contemporary drinking."

Spis treści

Thinking about drinking; Temperance and teetotalism; Balancing act or spirited measures?; The apogee of the temperance movement; An age of permissiveness; Alcohol, crime and disorder; Health, harm and risk; Conclusion: spirited measures and Victorian hangovers.