Alcohol and moral regulation : public attitudes, spirited measures and Victorian hangovers / Henry Yeomans.

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Yeomans, Henry [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Bristol ; Chicago : Policy Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (vii, 279 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781447309949
1447309944
9781447310013
1447310012
9781447323488
1447323483
9781447323471
1447323475

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alcohol and moral regulation.DDC classification:

362.29 362.292 22
362.3 23

LOC classification:

HV5446 .Y46 2014

NLM classification:

2017 I-588
HV 5446

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Contents:

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.

Summary: Alcohol consumption is frequently described as a contemporary, worsening and peculiarly British social problem that requires radical remedial regulation. Informed by historical research and sociological analysis, this book takes an innovative and refreshing look at how public attitudes and the regulation of alcohol have developed through time. It argues that, rather than a response to trends in consumption or harm, ongoing anxieties about alcohol are best understood as 'hangovers' derived, in particular, from the Victorian period. The product of several years of research, this book aims to help readers re-evaluate their understandings of drinking. As such, it is essential reading for students, academics and anyone with a serious interest in Britain's 'drink problem'.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index.

Alcohol consumption is frequently described as a contemporary, worsening and peculiarly British social problem that requires radical remedial regulation. Informed by historical research and sociological analysis, this book takes an innovative and refreshing look at how public attitudes and the regulation of alcohol have developed through time. It argues that, rather than a response to trends in consumption or harm, ongoing anxieties about alcohol are best understood as 'hangovers' derived, in particular, from the Victorian period. The product of several years of research, this book aims to help readers re-evaluate their understandings of drinking. As such, it is essential reading for students, academics and anyone with a serious interest in Britain's 'drink problem'.

English.

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