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."