Drinking

Behavior and Belief in Modern History

Susanna Barrows, Robin Room, Susanna Barrows, Robin Room

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780520334045
• eBook ISBN: 9780520334052
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

Drinking: Behavior and Belief in Modern History explores the complex and multifaceted role of alcohol in shaping cultures, societies, and behaviors throughout modern history. The book brings together diverse essays from historians and sociologists, examining how alcohol consumption has influenced daily life, social movements, and political ideologies. By exploring the material and symbolic significance of alcohol, the volume sheds light on its place in social history, drawing connections between drinking practices and broader societal changes. The book also delves into the responses to alcohol-related problems, from the temperance movements of the 19th century to modern-day medicalization and state interventions, showing how alcohol has been both a source of cultural identity and a focal point for social control. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, the collection offers valuable insights into how alcohol consumption reflects and shapes power dynamics, class structures, and cultural norms. By analyzing drinking subcultures, the book uncovers the different ways alcohol has been consumed and understood across time and places, from working-class taverns to elite private rituals. The authors also explore how alcohol-related policies and societal reactions have evolved, offering a deep and thoughtful look into the complex relationship between alcohol and society. Drinking: Behavior and Belief in Modern History is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the social, cultural, and political dimensions of alcohol throughout modern history. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction Susanna Barrows and Robin Room
• ONE Puritans in Taverns: Law and Popular Culture in Colonial Massachusetts, 1630—1720 David W. Conroy
• TWO Social Drinking in Old Regime Paris Thomas Brennan
• THREE “Parliaments of the People”: The Political Culture of Cafés in the Early Third Republic Susanna Barrows
• FOUR The Tavern and Politics in the German Labor Movement, c. 1870—1914 James S. Roberts
• FIVE Decay from Within: The Inevitable Doom of the American Saloon Madelon Powers
• SIX Student Drinking in the Third Reich: Academic Tradition and the Nazi Revolution Geoffrey J. Giles
• SEVEN Against the Flowing Tide: Whiskey and Temperance in the Making of Modern Ireland George Bretherton
• EIGHT Drunks, Brewers, and Chiefs: Alcohol Regulation in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1939 Charles H. Ambler
• NINE Capitalism, Religion, and Reform: The Social History of Temperance in Harvey, Illinois Ray Hutchison
• TEN Women and Temperance in International Perspective: The World’s WCTU, 1880s-1920s Ian Tyrrell
• ELEVEN Socialism, Alcoholism, and the Russian Working Classes before 1917 George E. Snow
• TWELVE Public Health, Public Morals, and Public Order: Social Science and Liquor Control in Massachusetts, 1880—1916 Thomas F Babor and Barbara G. Rosenkrantz
• THIRTEEN Inebriate Reformatories in Scotland: An Institutional History Patrick M. McLaughlin
• FOURTEEN Alcohol and the State in Nazi Germany, 1933—1945 Hermann Fahrenkrug
• FIFTEEN From Fasting to Abstinence: The Origins of the American Temperance Movement Joel Bernard
• SIXTEEN The Paradox of Temperance: Blacks and the Alcohol Question in Nineteenth-Century America Denise Herd
• SEVENTEEN From Symbolic Exchange to Commodity Consumption: Anthropological Notes on Drinking as a Symbolic Practice Marianna Adler
• EIGHTEEN Benevolent Repression: Popular Culture, Social Structure, and the Control of Drinking Joseph Gusfield
• Sources for the Social History of Alcohol Jeffrey Verhey
• Contributors
• Index