Prohibition in Turkey
eBook - ePub

Prohibition in Turkey

Alcohol and the Politics of Identity

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Prohibition in Turkey

Alcohol and the Politics of Identity

About this book

A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.

Prohibition in Turkey investigates the history of alcohol, its consumption, and its proscription as a means to better understand events and agendas of the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras. Through a comprehensive examination of archival, literary, popular culture, media, and other sources, it unveils a traditionally overlooked—and even excluded—aspect of human history in a region that many do not associate with intoxicants, inebriation, addiction, and vigorous wet-dry debates.

Historian Emine Ö. Evered's account uniquely chronicles how the Turko-Islamic Ottoman Empire developed strategies for managing its heterogeneous communities and their varied rights to produce, market, and consume alcohol, or to simply abstain. The first author to reveal this experience's connections with American Prohibition, she demonstrates how—amid modernization, sectarianism, and imperial decline—drinking practices reflected, shifted, and even prompted many of the changes that were underway and that hastened the empire's collapse. Ultimately, Evered's book reveals how Turkey's alcohol question never went away but repeatedly returns in the present, in matters of popular memory, public space, and political contestation.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Note on Translation, Transliteration, Dates, and Names
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Introduction. A Peculiar History
  9. Chapter 1. Ottoman Alcohol: Institutions, Traditions, and Ambiguities
  10. Chapter 2. Taverns, Drinks, and Drunkenness
  11. Chapter 3. Doctors, Drunken Bureaucrats, and Modern Temperance
  12. Chapter 4. America’s “Noble Experiment” and Its Reverberations Abroad
  13. Chapter 5. Parliamentary Politics and Alcohol in Early Republican Turkey
  14. Chapter 6. Drinking through Prohibition
  15. Chapter 7. From Repeal to Two Monopolies
  16. Conclusion. “Şerefine Tayyip!”
  17. Epilogue
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Notes
  20. Index