The current ATHG discussion of a course on alcohol history (especially the
list of books provided by Jessy Randall) offers me an opportunity to
mention an invitation that I received a few days ago and to ask your help.

The invitation was from a library journal asking me to submit a proposal
for a bibliographical article on drink/temperance history in North America
and Europe.  I shall work up a proposal.  If the library journal turns it
down, probably I still will write the article and submit it elsewhere.  The
journal said that similar articles cite up to 100 works.  The article would
discuss schools of thought or scholarly trends, focus on  distinctive
methodologies and provocative departures from disciplinary trends, etc.

Anybody have a few books to suggest?  Anything to suggest re schools of
thought, methodologies, and so forth?  I hope to make the article
worthwhile and realize that my own work has left me ignorant of much that
is important in the fragmented world that the ATHG tries to serve.

By the way, some years ago I directed a senior seminar on drink/temperance
in Britain and North America.   It was difficult to find explicitly
comparative historical studies.

David Fahey
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