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Drink : a social history of America
- Title
- Drink : a social history of America / Andrew Barr.
- Author
- Barr, Andrew.
- Publication
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | TX815 .B377 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 466 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Examines not only the social influences that determine what, where, and why we choose to drink but also the social ills that have been attributed to alcohol, from the supposed decline in national values to the dipsomaniacal state of our national health"--Jacket.
- Subject
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages > United States > History
- Alcoholic beverages > United States > History
- Alcoholism > United States > History
- Alcohol Drinking > sociology
- Alcoholic Beverages > history
- Manners and customs
- Alcoholism
- Alcoholic beverages
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages
- Alkohol
- Getränk
- Alcoholgebruik
- United States > Social life and customs
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-450) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Drink and Drugs -- 1. The Americanization of European Taste -- 2. "Stranger, You'll Take Hash" -- 3. Drink and Sex -- 4. "No Nation Is Drunken Where Wine Is Cheap" -- 5. The Failure of Controls -- 6. "The True Friends of Liberty" -- Conclusion: Social Drinking.
- ISBN
- 0786705590
- 9780786705597
- 0786707437
- 9780786707430
- LCCN
- 00503361
- OCLC
- ocm40777787
- 40777787
- SCSB-963272
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library