Drink and the Victorians: The Temperance Question in England, 1815-1872This new edition of a pioneering work, first published in 1971, studies the impact of industrialization on drinking habits and attitudes toward drink in England. The book had a major impact on writing about nineteenth-century social history, and continues today to be a much-used resource. This revised edition includes new material and assesses research done since 1971. It also features a fresh introduction which examines the book's place in the understanding of Victorian social history. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION | 12 |
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION | 19 |
18151830 | 63 |
Copyright | |
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abstinence alcohol Alliance Weekly Annual Report Anti-Corn Law League anti-spirits movement attack B.L. Add Beer Act beersellers beershops brewers Brewing British Temperance Brougham Bruce campaign century Chartist claimed Cobden Conservative consumption drink interest drinking places drinksellers drunkards drunkenness early England English evangelical F. W. Newman Foreign Temperance free licensing free trade Gladstone Hansard ibid individual industrial influence J. S. Mill John Joseph Livesey July June Labour late-Victorian Lawson lecturers Leeds legislation Liquor Livesey's London magistrates Manchester meeting moral reform National Temperance League nineteenth-century nonconformist on-licences Oxford Papers Parl parliament parliamentary Permissive Bill pledge political prohibitionists prominent public-house publicans Quakers Quotations radical recreation religious Sept sobriety social spirits Sunday T. H. Green teetotal leaders teetotalers Temperance Advocate Temperance Intelligencer temperance movement temperance organizations temperance reformers Temperance Society Victorian Wales Weekly Record William wine