For a history of medicine perspective on alcohol-related harm, during
the 19th & 20th centuries, I recommend a paper that I wrote a few
years ago: Katcher BS, Benjamin Rush's Educational Campaign Against
Hard Drinking, American Journal of Public Health 1993: vol 83,
273-281.
>(1) I suspect historians may have some reservations about it, but
>for an ambitious synthetic effort take a look at Mariana Valverde,
>Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom, Cambridge
>University Press, 1998.
> (2) As an overview of its territory, it seems to me hard to beat
>Blocker's American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform.
> (3) For a good discussion which argues that the positive side of
>drinking is intrinsically bound up with the negative, see later
>chapters of:
> Juha Partanen, Sociability and Intoxication: Alcohol and
>Drinking in Kenya, Africa, and the Modern World. Helsinki: Finnish
>Foundation for Alcohol Studies, vol. 39, 1991. (I think still
>distributed in US by Rutgers Center for Alcohol Studies).
> As the title suggests, this is in a context of a review of the
>cultural history and position of drinking in sub-Saharan Africa.
>Robin Room
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Frederick H. Smith <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: den 11 september 1999 22:48
>Subject: Re: course on alcohol
>
>
> >In response to Dan Malleck's request:
> > I'm currently teaching a course "A cultural history of alcohol" in
> >the Honors department at the University of Florida. The course combines
> >anthropological and historical approaches to drinking. Emphasis is on
> >traditional uses of alcohol in the developing world. Geoffrey Giles'
> >"Alcohol in history" course provided a good foundation and would be an
> >excellent model for any social history of alcohol course. So far, the
> >cross-cultural perspective has been well received. Although we have not yet
> >reached the week, Emmanuel Akyeampong's recent social history of drink in
> >Ghana has already generated some good discussion outside of class. I have
> >also received positive feedback from students about W. Taylor's Drink,
> >homocide... and M. Powers Faces along the bar. Many of the readings are
> >articles from Barrows and Room (unfortunately out-of-print), as well as the
> >readers from M. Marshall (1979) and M. Everett, J. Waddell, and D. Heath
> >(1976). The students in the Honors program are at an advanced academic
> >level and preliminary responses suggest they have embraced the broad
> >cross-cultural perspective. They are using this course as an opportunity to
> >explore a broad range of cultural ideas and to examine non-western uses of
> >alcohol traditionally overlooked.
> >
> > Frederick H. Smith
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>I'm proposing a course on the history of alcohol, broadly construed (I'll
> >>narrow it down soon enough) and am looking for decent general histories, or
> >>collections. I know of "The changing face of drink" and earlier
> >>collections ("Alcohol, Reform and Society" for example.. part of my
> >>personal Jack Blocker library!) but could use a few more suggestions...
> >>especially something that is accessible for non-historians.
> >>
> >>The course I'm proposing is for general students, but especially students
> >>of viticulture, so wine history would also be useful.
> >>
> >>I know similar questions have been asked of this list before, but they were
> >>a while back, and new material might be available (for example, I seem to
> >>recall Rod Phillips was talking about developing such a course or text a
> >>few months ago). So any suggestions will be appreciated.
> >>
> >>Cheers.
> >>
> >>Dan Malleck
> >>================================================================
> >>[log in to unmask]
> >>
> >>"It is not because things are difficult that we do not try them, it is
> >>because we do not try them that they are difficult." --Seneca
> >
> >
> >Frederick H. Smith
> >University of Florida
> >Department of Anthropology
> >1116 Turlington Hall
> >Gainesville, Fl 32611
> >[log in to unmask]
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