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Potent brews : a social history of alcohol in East Africa, 1850-1999 /
Justin Willis
London : J. Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press, c2002
Abbreviations
Glossary
List of Maps, Tables, Figures & Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Ambiguous power
1
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What are you drinking?: Alcohol & innovation 1850-1999
21
Pt. 1
Drink, sex & violence: The nature of power in nineteenth-century East
Africa
47
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Wild women & violent youths
50
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Drinking power: The construction of authority in pre-colonial societies
61
4
Chiefs & caravans: Alternative sources of power
76
Pt. 2
Native liquor, money & the colonial state: c. 1900-60
95
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Selling drink 1900-60
99
6
Native liquor, native authority: Drinking policy & practice 1900-40
118
7
Clubs & beerhalls 1940-55
141
8
Whisky in the club: 'Intoxicating Liquor' 1900-47
160
Pt. 3
Drink & development: c.1950-90
175
9
'Beer is best': Formal sector alcohol 1947-90
181
10
Traditional liquor & development c.1960-90
198
11
'Impure spirit': Illicit distillation, health & power
220
Pt. 4
Drinking in the 1990s
241
12
Beer wars & power drinks: State, capital & drinking well-being 1991-99
243
13
Crises of drinking & diversification
252
Appendices
267
App. I
European & Asian alcohol consumption, Kenya & Uganda 1922-48
App. II
Consumption of formal sector alcohol in Kenya 1954-90
App. III
Bottled-beer production for local consumption & excise revenue from beer
App. IV
Modern drinking & production: summary results of surveys
App. V
Interview details
Bibliography
291
Index
300
Descript'n
xii, 304 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-299) and index
ISBN
0821414755 (cl : alk. paper)
0821414763 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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