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Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard
Thora Hands
2018
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.
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Keywords
- alcohol
- Alcohol industry
- British & Irish history
- consumption
- Cultural Studies
- Drunkenness
- Ethnology—Europe
- European History
- Great Britain—History
- History
- history of medicine
- History: specific events & topics
- Humanities
- Licensing Act
- medical history
- medicine
- Medicine: General Issues
- Medicine—History
- Moral
- nineteenth century
- open access
- Regional & national history
- Social & cultural history
- Social history
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Temperance
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
- Twentieth century
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92964-4web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-92964-4
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