I want to thank members for sending me
information about suitable paperbacks for college history courses. Let
this be the last call for information. 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
Leonard U. Blumberg, with William L. Pittman,
Beware the First Drink!: The Washington Movement and Alcoholics
Anonymous
(Seattle: Glen Abbey, 1991)
(ISBN: 0-934225-22-8) $12.95
Mexican History
William B. Taylor, Drinking, Homicide and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican
Villages
(Stanford University Press, 1979) (ISBN: 0-8047-1112-7)
$12.95
Canadian History
Robert A. Campbell, Demon Rum or Easy Money:
Government Control of Liquor in British Columbia from Prohibition to
Privatization.
(Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1991) (ISBN:
0-88629-152-6)
African History
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Drink, Power and
Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1800 to Recent
Times.
(London: Heinemann, 1997)
(0-435-0-8996-X) $23.95
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