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Date:          Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:55:23 +0100
Reply-to:      Kettil Bruun Society <[log in to unmask]>
From:          Robin Room <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:       more gems
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Listmembers --
    Continuing the thread from Harald Klingemann and myself of interesting new stuff:

   Anya Taylor, _Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink, 1780-1830_ , Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan & New York: St. Martin's, 1999. ISBN 0-333-21499-5 (cloth) USD $65 (!).  The focus is
n  Burns, Lamb, the Coleridges, Keats, and on the early feminist reaction against male celebrations of drunkenness, by women poets and writers such as Maria Edgeworth and Mary Wollstonecraft.  From
he perspective of the history of addiction, the book brings new material to bear on the debate between Harry Levine and Jessia Warner & Roy Porter on the dating and social location of the "discovery
of addiction".

    Madelon Powers, _Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920, University of Chicago Press, 1998, ISBN 0-226-67768-0, cloth, 1998.     A detailed study of the heyday
of the American saloon, with attention to folkways (treating, games and gambling, talk and storytelling, songs and singing) and such features as the free lunch, as well as social divisions such as g
nder, age, occupation and ethnicity.

    Sheigla Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum, _Pregnant Women on Drugs: Comating Stereotypes and Stigma_, New Brunswick: Rugers University Press, 1999.  ISBN 0-8135-2603-5 (paperback), USD $19.  Draws on
interviews with 120 pregnant or recently-delivered drug-using women about how they make choices about drug use, pregnancy and prenatal care, about how they seek to limit harm during pregnancy, and a
out the "final showdown" of birth, delivery and exposure in an institutional setting.

    _Beber de tierra generosa: vol. 1: Historia de las bebidas alcoholicas en Mexico; vol. 2: Ciencia de las bebidas alcoholicas en Mexico.  [Mexico City:]  Fundacion de Investigaciones Sociales, [1
98].  ISBN 968-6115-11-0 for both vols., or:  968-6115-12-9 for vol. 1, 968-6115-13-7 for vol. 2.   A sumptuously-produced multiauthored compilation, including a number of familiar names (e.g., Mari
 Elena Medina Mora, Haydee Rosovsky, Carlos Campillo, mostly in vol. 2) and a wonderful set of historical and contemporary coloured photos and art reproductions of alcohol production and drinking cu
toms in vol. 1.

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