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Author Yeomans, Henry, author.

Title Alcohol and moral regulation : public attitudes, spirited measures and Victorian hangovers / Henry Yeomans
Published Bristol ; Chicago : Policy Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 279 pages)
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'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index
Notes English
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Subject Alcoholism -- Great Britain -- History
Alcohol -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 20th century
Alcohol -- Social aspects -- Wales -- History -- 20th century
Alcohol -- Law and legislation.
Alcohol.
Psychotropic drugs -- Social aspects
Alcohol Drinking -- history
Alcohol Drinking -- legislation & jurisprudence
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Alcoholism -- history
Public Policy -- history
Temperance Movement
Ethanol
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Alcoholism
Alcohol -- Social aspects
Alcohol -- Law and legislation
Alcohol
Psychotropic drugs -- Social aspects
Alkoholkonsumtion.
Alkohol -- attityder till.
Alkohol -- etik och moral.
SUBJECT United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
Subject Wales
Great Britain
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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