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020			_a978-3-319-92964-4
024	7		_a10.1007/978-3-319-92964-4 _cdoi
041	0		_aEnglish
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100	1		_aHands, Thora _4auth _972089
245	1	0	_aDrinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain : Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard
260			_aCham _bSpringer Nature _c2018
300			_a1 electronic resource (195 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_aThis open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the drink industry and by increasingly restrictive licensing laws. Politics and commerce co-existed with moral and medical concerns about drunkenness and combined, these factors pushed alcohol consumers into the public spotlight. Through an analysis of public and private records, medical texts and sociological studies, the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ideas about alcohol that circulated in the period. This book shows that they had many reasons for purchasing and consuming alcoholic substances and these were driven by broader social, cultural, medical and commercial factors. Although drunkenness may have been the most visible consequence of alcohol consumption, it was not the only type of drinking behaviour. Alcohol played an important social role in the everyday lives of Victorians and Edwardians where its consumption held many different meanings.
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 _2cc _4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
546			_aEnglish
650		7	_aBritish & Irish history _2bicssc _988074
650		7	_aSocial & cultural history _2bicssc _9101508
650		7	_aCultural studies _2bicssc
650		7	_aHistory of medicine _2bicssc _968747
653			_aHistory
653			_aGreat Britain-History
653			_aSocial history
653			_aMedicine-History
653			_aEthnology-Europe
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856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31137 _70 _zDOAB: description of the publication
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