The current ATHG discussion of a course on alcohol history (especially the list of books provided by Jessy Randall) offers me an opportunity to mention an invitation that I received a few days ago and to ask your help. The invitation was from a library journal asking me to submit a proposal for a bibliographical article on drink/temperance history in North America and Europe. I shall work up a proposal. If the library journal turns it down, probably I still will write the article and submit it elsewhere. The journal said that similar articles cite up to 100 works. The article would discuss schools of thought or scholarly trends, focus on distinctive methodologies and provocative departures from disciplinary trends, etc. Anybody have a few books to suggest? Anything to suggest re schools of thought, methodologies, and so forth? I hope to make the article worthwhile and realize that my own work has left me ignorant of much that is important in the fragmented world that the ATHG tries to serve. By the way, some years ago I directed a senior seminar on drink/temperance in Britain and North America. It was difficult to find explicitly comparative historical studies. David Fahey <[log in to unmask]>