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

 
1
What are you drinking?: Alcohol & innovation 1850-1999
21

Pt. 1
Drink, sex & violence: The nature of power in nineteenth-century East 
Africa
47

 
2
Wild women & violent youths
50

 
3
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

 
5
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)