Martin -- one more suggestion:
Phil Pauly, Is liquor intoxicating? Science, Prohibition and the normalization of drinking, American Journal of Public Health 84:305-313, 1994 is a good discussion of the fairly successful effort to wrap the idea that beer is not intoxicating in the mantle of science at the time of Repeal. Robin
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From: Robin Room <[log in to unmask]>
To: Alcohol and Temperance History Group <[log in to unmask]>
Date: den 28 juni 1999 12:44
Subject: Re: books
Martin --
It wouldn't take you very much effort in a library catalogue or on the websites of Barnes & Noble or Amazon to fill out the references you are looking for. The Blocker reference is probably:
Jack Blocker, American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform. Boston:Twayne, early 1990s.
"Mrs. Grundy" was a term of abuse by British "wets" for those whom they perceived as being against fun.
I think you are tracking two quite different phenomena. One is Sunday observance, which was a great enthusiasm of 19th century religion, but which extended far beyond selling alcohol. I've seen a British book on this (the main British pressure group was the Lord's Day Observance Society). In the 20th century, the main support for Sunday closing came to be from the unions, which wanted a day of rest when their members could be with their families. This lasted longer elsewhere than in the US (where unions were weaker); the last echo of it in Ontario, called a "common pause day" to bleed off any religious implications, was abandoned under pressure from Sunday shopping trips across the US border in about 1992.
The differential treatment of beer and other alcoholic beverages comes particularly from the discourse around the time of the repeal of Prohibition. Take a look at an article by Brian Katcher, The post-repeal eclipse in klnowledge about the harmful effects of alcohol, Addiction 88:729-744, 1993. There or in another piece somewhere is the story of Yandell Henderson's efforts to prove that you could not get intoxicated on beer, so that beer was a "temperance" beverage, in the view of the "wet" side (the real temperance movement didn't agree at all). 3.2% beer was legalized by Congress ahead of Repeal, by declaring it non-intoxicating, and its very different treatment in the US alcohol control systems dates from that time.
There are not really good modern studies of US alcohol control systems as a whole. Try Rupert Wilkinson, The Prevention of Alcohol Problems, Oxford University Press, 1968 or so, and a small book by Stuart Matlins or Medicine in the Public Interest in the late 1970s. The California system is discussed in the chapter on California in Eric Single, Patrician Morgan and Jan de Lint, ed., Alcohol, Society, and the State: II. The Social History of Alcohol Control Experiences in Seven Countries. Toronto: Addiction Research Foundation, 1981. The literature on effects of alcohol control measures is summarized in Griffith Edwards et al., Alcohol Policy and the Public Good, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Robin Room
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From: mplatts <"[log in to unmask]"@BELLSOUTH.NET>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: den 26 juni 1999 21:27
Subject: books
>According to information recently supplied concerning alcohol,,sunday
>observance, can anyone list me the correct titles for the following:
>1. Blocker, Pegram and Clark..which discusses temperance sponsorship
>during the 19th century.
>2. John Rumbarger "Power, profits and-"????
>3 Books, periodicals concerning industrial policy and religous
>observance.
>4. "Mrs Grundy" which chronicled tap rooms with that of moral or
>religous beliefs. Something to that effect.
>Martin Platts h.c.i.m.a.
>I cannot order the these without knowing the titles
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