Format:
1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
ISBN:
1447309944
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9781447309949
Content:
ALCOHOL AND MORAL REGULATION; Contents; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Thinking about drinking; Introduction; The 'rational' explanation; The 'ebb and flow' of the drink problem; Moral regulation; Morality, regulation and moral regulation; Methods; 2. Temperance and teetotalism; Introduction; The 'second necessity of life'; Classical virtues and Georgian excesses; The 'temperance reformation'; The Beer Act 1830; Reflections; 3. Balancing acts or spirited measures?; Introduction; 'A new moralising subtext'; The split personality of Victorian temperance.
Content:
Informed by historical research and sociological analysis, this book helps readers re-evaluate their understandings of British drinking culture. It is essential readying for students and academics
Content:
Legal impacts of the temperance movementAttitudinal or heuristic impacts of the temperance movement; The legacy of the temperance movement; 4. The apogee of the temperance movement; Introduction; Drink as a national problem; Responses to war; Post-war: what now?; The apogee of the temperance movement; 5. An age of permissiveness?; Introduction; New frontiers, 1921-45; The growth of targeted regulation; Conclusion; 6. Alcohol, crime and disorder; Introduction; The narrative of deregulation; Acceptable in the 1980s?; The 'new culture of intoxication'
Content:
The attitudinal heritage of Victorian temperanceConclusion; 7. Health, harm and risk; Introduction; Drink, health and moral health until the 1960s; Debates about alcohol and health, 2003-10; Good health!; 8. Conclusion: spirited measures and Victorian hangovers; Conspectus; Public attitudes and alcohol regulation; Alcohol and moral regulation; Moral inheritance; Bibliography; Primary sources; Books and chapters in edited collections; Journal articles; Official publications, other data sources and miscellany; List of statutes; List of cases; Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Additional Edition:
1447310012
Additional Edition:
9781447310013
Additional Edition:
9781447309932
Additional Edition:
1447309936
Additional Edition:
9781447309949
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Yeomans, Henry Alcohol and moral regulation Bristol : Policy Press, 2014 9781447309949
Language:
English
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