- 256 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Morality and Health
- 1 To Your Health
- 2 Europe Divided
- 3 In the Public Sphere
- 4 In Vino Veritas
- 5 “Mon docteur le vin”
- Part II Sociability
- 6 Drinking and Alehouses in the Diary of an English Mercer’s Apprentice, 1663–1674
- 7 Taverns and the Public Sphere in the French Revolution
- 8 Drink,Sociability,and Social Class in France, 1789–1945
- 9 The Lore of the Brotherhood
- Part III State and Nation
- 10 “To the King o’er the Water”
- 11 Revenue and Revelry on Tap
- 12 Drinking “The Good Life”
- 13 Kaleidoscope in Motion
- Index