Alcohol : a history / Rod Phillips.
Phillips, Roderick.
2014
GT2884 .P45 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Alcohol : a history / Rod Phillips.
Author Phillips, Roderick.
ISBN 9781469617602 hardcover alkaline paper
1469617609 hardcover alkaline paper
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Language English
Description 370 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number GT2884 .P45 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 394.1/3
Summary In this innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets and as objects of social, political, and religious anxiety. In the urban centers of Europe and America, where it was seen as healthier than untreated water, alcohol gained a foothold as the drink of choice, but it has been more regulated by governmental and religious authorities more than any other commodity. As a potential source of social disruption, alcohol created volatile boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable consumption and broke through barriers of class, race, and gender. Phillips follows the ever-changing cultural meanings of these potent potables and makes the surprising argument that some societies have entered "post-alcohol" phases.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Alcohol in ancient worlds: nature and the human hand
Greece and Rome: the superiority of wine
Religion and alcohol: the paths of Christianity and Islam
The Middle Ages, 1000-1500: the birth of an industry
Early modern Europe, 1500-1700: alcohol, religion and culture
Distilled spirits, 1500-1750: threats to the social order
European alcohol in contact, 1500-1700: non-European worlds
Europe and America, 1700-1800: alcohol, enlightenment, and revolutions
Alcohol and the city, 1800-1900: class and social order
The enemies of alcohol, 1830-1914: temperance and prohibition
Alcohol and Native Peoples, 1800-1930: race, order and control
The First World War, 1914-1920: the battles against alcohol
Prohibitions, 1910-1935: noble experiments, ignoble failures
After Prohibitions, 1930-1945: normalizing alcohol
Alcohol in the modern world: trends in regulation and consumption.

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