Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard /

This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the drink industry and by increasingly restrictive licensing laws. Politics and comme...

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Main Author: Hands, Thora (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
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ISBN:9783319929644
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505 0 |a Chapter 1 Introduction Reframing Drink and the Victorians -- Section 1: Drinkers -- Chapter 2 The Spectre of the Drunkard -- Chapter 3 The Great Army of Drinkers -- Chapter 4 The Secret Army of Drinkers -- Chapter 5 Testing 'the character of drink' -- Section 2: Drinks -- Chapter 5 Promoting the Ideals of Empire: Bass & Co. Ltd -- Chapter 6 Making Scotch Respectable: Buchanan & Walker -- Chapter 7 Selling the illusion of the Brand: W & A Gilbey -- Section 3: Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain -- Chapter 8 Doctor's Orders: A Prescription to Drink -- Chapter 9 Drinking for Health: Proprietary Tonic Wines -- Chapter 10 Neither Carnival nor Lent: Working Class Drinking Culture -- Chapter 11 The Drinking Culture of the Higher Classes -- Chapter 12 Conclusions.-Appendix 1. 
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