Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard /

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 comme...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hands, Thora (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:	Great Britain > History. Social history. Medicine > History. Ethnology > Great Britain. Culture. History of Britain and Ireland. Social History. History of Medicine. British Culture.
Online Access:	Link to Metadata
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Table of Contents:

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.

Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard /

Similar Items