Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

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Beschreibung

This 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.

Über den Autor

Thora Hands completed her PhD in History at the University of Strathclyde and is currently a Lecturer in Social Sciences at City of Glasgow College, UK.

Zusammenfassung

Funded by the Wellcome Trust, this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license

Presents a social history of drinking in Britain, focusing on consumers' actions and attitudes rather than the problems of alcohol

Explores why people continued to drink alcohol throughout a period when it became increasingly difficult to do so in a socially acceptable way

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction Reframing Drink and the Victorians.- Section 1: Drinkers.- Chapter 2 The Spectre of the Drunkard.- Chapter 3 The Great Army of Drinkers.- Chapter 4 The Secret Army of Drinkers.- Chapter 5 Testing 'the character of drink'.- Section 2: Drinks.- Chapter 5 Promoting the Ideals of Empire: Bass & Co. Ltd .- Chapter 6 Making Scotch Respectable: Buchanan & Walker.- Chapter 7 Selling the illusion of the Brand: W & A Gilbey.- Section 3: Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.- Chapter 8 Doctor's Orders: A Prescription to Drink.- Chapter 9 Drinking for Health: Proprietary Tonic Wines.- Chapter 10 Neither Carnival nor Lent: Working Class Drinking Culture.- Chapter 11 The Drinking Culture of the Higher Classes.- Chapter 12 Conclusions.-Appendix 1.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geisteswissenschaften , Geschichte , Kunst , Musik
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xiv 195 S. 20 s/w Illustr. 195 p. 20 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783319929637
ISBN-10:	3319929631
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-92963-7
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Hands, Thora
Auflage:	1st edition 2018
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Thora Hands
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.06.2018
Gewicht:	0,393 kg

Artikel-ID: 113658918