Dear David,
This book sounds very interesting .
Could I use this opportunity to alert the group to a project I have just started at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundations drug and alcohol initiative?
The project is ' Temperance; history, current and future alcohol policy'.
We ( myself and a RA) intend to draw out key themes from temperance history which are of relevance to current policy development in the UK.
The initial work is based on a literature review,primarily of the secondary literature and then there will be a series of interviews with key players today.The end product will be a report and other publications.
This is an exciting project and I would like the help of members of the mailing list if they are willing.
Would members send me their 10 top readings on alcohol history? Here I mean works by current or near contemporary authors- not primary sources.Alcohol rather than temperance ;I would like to range widely to pull in the full field rather than just stick to the history of temperance perse.I am interested in the international role of temperance and more recent alcohol networks as well as the UK,although the JRF focus is UK only.
Regards,
Virginia Berridge
Virginia Berridge
Professor of History
Public and Environmental Health Research Unit
Department of Public Health and Policy
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London WC1E 7HT
Tel: 0207 7927 - 2269
Fax: 0207 7637 - 3238
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/history
Just received a paperback copy of Ann-Marie E. Szymanski (University of
Oklahoma/political science), Pathways to Prohibition: Radicals, Moderates
and Social Movement Outcomes (Duke UP, 2003). Writing from a social
movement theory perspective, she emphasizes that a locally based, moderate
strategy ("local gradualism") often is the most effective strategy in the
American context.