Below is an incomplete list of paperbacks currently in print that could be used for college history courses. Please let me know if I have missed some title.

US History

Peter C. Mancall, Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America
(Cornell University Press, 1995) (ISBN: 0-8014-8044-2)

David W. Conroy, In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts
(University of North Carolina Press, 1995) (ISBN: 0-8078-4521-3), $19.95

W.J. Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
(Oxford University Press, 1979) (ISBN: 0-19-502990-9)

Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the 18th Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
(UNC Press, 1995) (ISBN: 0-8078-4493-4), $19.95

Thomas R. Pegram, Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998) (ISBN: 1-1566-3209-9)


British History

Judith Bennett, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600
(Oxford University Press, 1999) (ISBN: 0-19-512650-5), $19.95

Virginia Berridge, Opium and the People: Opiate Use and Policy in 19th and Early 20th Century Britain (revised edition)
(Free Association Books, 1998) (ISBN: 85343-413-2) L16.95

Betsy Thom, Dealing with Drink: Alcohol and Social Policy in Contemporary England
(Free Association Books, June 1999) (ISBN: 1-85343-450-7) L15.95


Moira Plant, Women and Alcohol: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
(Free Association Books, May 1997) (ISBN: 1-85343-364-0) L15.95


French History

W. Scott Haine, The World of the Paris Cafe: Sociability among the French Working Class
(Johns Hopkins Press, 1999) (ISBN: 0-80186070-9), $19.95

Conrad Barnaby, Absinthe: History in a Bottle
(Chronicle Books, 1989; reprint "forthcoming") (ISBN: 0-87701-486-8), $19.95


Collection of Articles

Jack S. Blocker Jr. and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, The Changing Face of Drink: Substance, Imagery, and Behaviour
(Histoire Social/ Social History, 1997) (ISBN: 0-9683032-0-X), $22.50



David Gutzke
Southwest Missouri State University