Alcohol and Moral Regulation: Public Attitudes, Spirited Measures and Victorian Hangovers

Henry Yeomans

doi:10.46692/9781447309949

Alcohol and Moral Regulation

Public Attitudes, Spirited Measures and Victorian Hangovers

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Henry Yeomans

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: March 2022
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781447309949
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447309949

Subjects:: Criminology, Sociology

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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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Alcohol and Moral Regulation

Public Attitudes, Spirited Measures and Victorian Hangovers

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of figures
pp v-v

List of abbreviations
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

one - Thinking about drinking
pp 1-34

two - Temperance and teetotalism
pp 35-64

three - Balancing acts or spirited measures?
pp 65-96

four - The apogee of the temperance movement
pp 97-128

five - An age of permissiveness?
pp 129-166

six - Alcohol, crime and disorder
pp 167-202

seven - Health, harm and risk
pp 203-242

eight - Conclusion: spirited measures and Victorian hangovers
pp 243-254

Bibliography
pp 255-268

Index
pp 269-279

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