Forwarded from Patricia Barton
The 5th International Conference on the
History of Drugs and Alcohol: The Pathways to Prohibition,
26-28th June 2009, CSHHH, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
When John Shanks acquired the Barrhead pottery company to establish his
“sanitary engineering workshop” in the late nineteenth century, the
decision was more than a simple business one. The man who was to
become the President of the Barrhead Evangelist Association chose the
town, which bordered Glasgow, as it had the reputation of having the
highest number of pubs per head of population. Workers had to sign the
temperance pledge to ensure employment. Shanks was following in the
footsteps of temperance campaigner Sir William Collins, Glasgow book
publisher and Lord Provost who earned the nickname “Water Willie”.
In Britain, however, the impact of such campaigners remained local, and
only those who adopted the global/colonial platform against intoxicants
met with success. Such limited influence paved the ground for the
British anti-intoxicant policy of the twentieth century which rejected
prohibition for the medical solution, ultimately another localised
response to local problems.
The conference is seeking papers on the broad subject of the ‘pathways to
prohibition’, the underlying motives governing policy and reactions to
policymaking across the globe. Proposed papers or panels can be on
any topic in the history of drugs and alcohol, but some issues to be
considered include the ways in which the cultures of consumption evolved
to meet the challenge of prohibition; the impact upon previously good
citizens, including distillers and brewers, whose activities were now
criminalised; the changing images of consumption under prohibition
policies; the construction of consumption which underlay decisions to
instigate prohibition or reject it; the effectiveness of the merging of
local initiatives with national and international politics of
prohibition.
Abstracts of proposed papers (no more than 500 words long) or of proposed
panels should be sent by email, fax or post by November 15th
2008 to
Dr Patricia Barton
CSHHH
Dept of History
University of Strathclyde
16 Richmond Street
Glasgow
G1 1XQ
Scotland
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Tel: 44 (0)141 548 2932/ Fax: 44 (0)141 552 8509
Dan Malleck, PhD
Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences
Brock University
500 Glenridge Ave
St. Catharines, Ontario
L2S 3A1
905 688-5550 ext 5108
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