In response to your request for sources on alcohol consumption in 19th C
Europe might I suggest the following:
 
For France:
Thomas Brennan, 'Towards the cultural history of alcohol in France'
_Journal of Social History_ 23/1 (1989-90) pp71-92 which includes figures
and explains increases in consumption, attributing them to the
incorporation of rural drinkers into the commercial market.  Also has
excellent refs. in foot-notes.
 
Michael R Marrus 'Social drinking in the Belle Epoque' _Journal of Social
History_ 7 (1973-74) pp115-141 includes graphs and figures (which Brennan
utilises) to illustrate the importance of technological advance in the
increase in alcohol production and consumption.
 
see also P.E. Prestwich 'French workers and the temperance movement'
_International Review of Social History_ 25 (1980) pp35-52 which is not
really about consumption, but which is important in illustrating changing
attitudes in France, the country felt to be the least suseptible to
temperance influence.
 
On Germany:
 
Lynn Abrams _Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany_ (Routledge, London,
1992) esp. pp63-91.  This is heavily influenced by the work of James
Roberts cited below.
 
James Roberts _Drink, Temperance and the Working Class in Nineteenth Century
Germany_ (1984) General survey of the topic
 
Idem 'Drink and working-class living standards in 19th century Germany'
in W. Conze & U. Engelhardt (eds) _Arbeiterexistenz im 19. Jahrhundert_
(1981) figures for consumption and consumption as part of household
expenditure for various classes
 
Idem 'Drink and industrial work-discipline in nineteenth century Germany'
_Journal of Social History_ 15/1 (1981-82) pp25-38 attitudes to drinking
in the workplace, 'instrumental' drinking and its decline in the face of
employer control and the provision of alternative fluids.
 
Idem 'Drink and the labour movement: The Schnapps Boycott of 1909' in
R.J. Evans (ed) _The German Working Class, 1888-1933_ (Croom Helm,
London, 1982) pp80-107 which addresses the issue of temperance within the
German labour movement.  In particular emphasising the reasons for the
decline in consumption experienced in the Empire after 1900, and
especially in the wake of tax increases in 1909.
 
Britain:
 
For a highly influencial article on the reasons behind declining
consumption in the UK after 1875 see A.E. Dingle 'Drink and working class
living standards in Britain 1870-1914' _Economic History Review_ second
series 25/4 (1972) pp608-622.
 
General:
 
Guy Hayler, _Prohibition Advance in All Lands_ (International Prohibition
Confederation, London, 1913)  This has a brief piece on virtually every
country or imperial region in the world at the time.  Not all include
figures on consumption, but some sections do, including material for
Russia for 1897-1913, Germany and Nigeria as well as assessments of the
development of prohibition legislation across the world.
 
Hope this is of some use, and if you would like any more information, do
contact me directly.
 
Barry Doyle
Department of Modern History
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Scotland
 
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