I want to thank members for sending me
information about suitable paperbacks for college history courses. Let
this be the last call for information. I still have not heard about books
in Canadian history and many other fields (see below). Scott Haine will be
publishing the completed list in a forthcoming issue of the Social History of
Alcohol Review.
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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)
Wilbur R. Miller, Revenuers and Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal
Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1865-1900
(University of North Carolina Press, 1991)
John Burnham, Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking,
Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Behavior and Swearing in America
(New York University Press,
1993) (ISBN: 0-8147-1224-X) $19.50
John Kobler, Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of
Prohibition
(1973; reprint ed., Da Capo Press, 1993) (ISBN: 0-306-80512-X)
$14.95
Mexican History
William B. Taylor, Drinking, Homicide and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican
Villages
(Stanford University Press, 1979) (ISBN: 0-8047-1112-7)
$12.95
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