Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History (Hardcover)

Part I: Alcohol in Early Modern Europe, ca. 1500-1800 * 'The Art of Drinking in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Europe'--Ken Albala, University of the Pacific * 'Europe Divided: Wine and Beer in the Reformation'--Mack P. Holt, George Mason University * 'Drinking and Alehouses in the Diary of an English Mercer's Apprentice, 1663-1674'--A.Lynn Martin, University of Adelaide * '"To the King o'er the Water": Scotland and Claret, c. 1660-1763'--Charles Cameron Ludington, Columbia University * 'Taverns and the Public Sphere in the French Revolution'--Thomas Brennan, United States Naval AcademyPart II: Alcohol in Modern Europe, 1800 to the Present'Drink, Sociability and Class in France, 1789-1945'--W. Scott Haine, University of Maryland, University College * 'Mon docteur le vin: Wine and Health in France, 1900-1950'--Kim Mulholland, University of Minnesota * ' A Social History of the Russian Tavern (Kabak)'--Patricia Herlihy, Brown University * 'In Vino Veritas: The Construction of Alcoholic Disease in Liberal Italy, 1880-1914'--Paul A. Garfinkel, Harvard UniversityPart III: Alcohol in the New World * 'Drinking in the United States: A Kaleidoscope in Motion, 1600-2000'--Jack S. Blocker, Jr., University of Western Ontario * 'Tippling Philosophers: Taverns, Drink, and the Expansion of the Public Sphere in Southern New England, 1740-1820'--David W. Conroy, Independent Scholar * 'The Lore of the Brotherhood: Continuity and Change in Urban American Saloon Culture, 1870-1920'--Madelon M. Powers, University of New Orleans * 'Drinking the Good Life: Australia c.1880-1980'--Diane Kirkby, La Trobe University