Alcohol and Moral Regulation : : Public Attitudes, Spirited Measures and Victorian Hangovers / / Henry Yeomans.
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 regul...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2014 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Thinking about drinking
- Temperance and teetotalism
- Balancing acts 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
- Bibliography
- Index