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The most recent issue of the Social History of 
Alcohol and Drugs has been sent to 
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Here is the table of contents:

The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Volume 22, No. 1 (Fall 2007)

Contents
Editor’s note – 4

Essays
“The Great Quinine Fraud”: Legality Issues in the “Non-Narcotic”
Drug Trade in British India
Patricia Barton – 6

Promoting the Pint: Ale and Advertising in late Victorian and
Edwardian England
Jonathan Reinarz – 26

Slave to the Bottle and the Plough: The Inner and Outer
Worlds of Freedom in George Moses Horton’s Poetry
Carole Lynn Stewart – 45

Drinking and Thinking: Club Life and Convivial Sociability in
Mid-Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh
Corey E. Andrews – 65

Resources
Dissertations in the history of alcohol and drugs
Compiled by Jonathan Erlen – 83

In Memoriam
Bill Pittman (1947–2007) An appreciation – 84


Book Reviews
Diana L. Ahmad. The Opium Debate and Chinese 
Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American 
West. Reviewed by Guenter Risse – 87

Brooks McNamara. The New York Concert Saloon: The 
Devil’s Own Nights, digitized edition. Reviewed by Peter Bailey – 88

Ron Brunton. The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and 
Cultural Instability in Melanesia. Cambridge 
Studies in Social Anthropology no. 69. Reviewed by Lamont Lindstrom – 90

Paul Dimeo. A History of Drug Use in Sport 
1876-1976: Beyond Good and Evil. Reviewed by Neil Carter – 92

Jordan Goodman, Paul E. Lovejoy and Andrew 
Sherratt, eds. Consuming Habits: Global and 
Historical Perspectives on How Cultures Define 
Drugs. 2nd ed. Reviewed by Alex Mold – 94

John Hailman. Thomas Jefferson on Wine.  Reviewed by Noelle Plack – 95

Mark Simpson, Tracy Shildrick and Robert 
MacDonald, eds. Drugs in Britain: Supply, 
Consumption and Control. Reviewed by Susanne MacGregor – 97

James H. Mills and Patricia Barton, eds. Drugs 
and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and 
Intoxication, c. 1500–c. 1930. Reviewed by Jesse S. Palsetia – 99

Pamela Pennock. Advertising Sin and Sickness: The 
Politics of Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing, 
1950-1990. Reviewed by Amy Mittelman – 101

Robert Greenfield. Timothy Leary: A Biography. Reviewed by Erika Dyck – 103



Dan

Dan Malleck, PhD
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Editor-in-chief, Social History of Alcohol and 
Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal
http://historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com

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