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A Social History of Alcohol and Other Drugs since 2000: Works Cited

By David M. Fahey

Works Cited

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Campbell, Robert A. Sit Down and Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver’s Beer Parlours, 1925–1954. Toronto, 2001.

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Dillon, Patrick. The Much-Lamented Death of Madam Geneva: The Eighteenth-Century Gin Craze. Review, 2002.

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Duncan, Robert. Pubs and Patriots: The Drink Crisis in Britain during World War One. Liverpool, 2013.

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Elcock, Chris. Psychedelic New York: A History of LSD in the City. McGill-Queen’s, 2023 (CH, Feb’24, 61-1723).

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Fitzgerald, Ross, and Trevor L. Jordan. Under the Influence: A History of Alcohol in Australia. ABC Books, 2009.

Fletcher, Holly Berkley. Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge, 2007 (CH, Feb’09, 46-3437).

Foxcroft, Louise. The Making of Addiction: The ‘Use and Abuse’ of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Ashgate, 2007.

Frydl, Kathleen, The Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973. Cambridge, 2013 (CH, Jan’14, 51-2932).

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Greenaway, John. Drink and British Politics since 1830: A Study in Policy-Making. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 (CH, Apr’04, 41-4880).

Guba, David A., Jr. Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France. McGill-Queen’s, 2020.

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___. Pubs and Progressives: Reinventing the Public House in England, 18961960. Northern Illinois, 2004.

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Gutzke, David W., and Michael John Law. The Roadhouse Comes to Britain: Drinking, Driving and Dancing, 1925–1955. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 (CH, Oct’17, 55-0776).

Hailwood, Mark. Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England. Boydell Press, 2014.

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Hands, Thora. Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

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Herlihy, Patricia. The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia. Oxford, 2002 (CH, Sep’02, 40-0474).

Heron, Craig. Booze: A Distilled History. Between the Lines, 2003.

Herrlinger, Page. Holy Sobriety in Modern Russia: A Faith Healer and His Followers. Northern Illinois, 2023.

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Jakl, Jiri. Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance. Brill, 2021.

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Kadel, Bradley. Drink and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Alcohol Trade and the Politics of the Irish Public House. I. B. Tauris, 2015 (CH, Jul’16, 53-4957).

Kamenov, Nikolay. Global Temperance and the Balkans: American Missionaries, Swiss Scientists and Bulgarian Socialists, 1870–1940. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Kim, Diana S. Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia. Princeton, 2020 (CH, Dec’20, 58-1126).

Knoedelseder, William. Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s Kings of Beer. Harper Business, 2012.

Lamme, Margot Opdyke. Public Relations and Religion in American History: Evangelism, Temperance, and Business. Routledge, 2014.

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Lappas, Thomas J. In League against King Alcohol: Native American Women and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874–1933. Oklahoma, 2020.

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Ludington, Charles. The Politics of Wine in Britain: A New Cultural History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Mitchell, Timothy. Intoxicated Identities: Alcohol’s Power in Mexico’s History and Culture. Routledge, 2004.

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Mold, Alex. Heroin: The Treatment of Addiction in Twentieth-Century Britain. Northern Illinois, 2008.

Murphy, Matt. Rum: A Distilled History of Colonial Australia. HarperCollins, 2021.

Musto, David F., and Pamela Korsmeyer. The Quest for Drug Control: Politics and Federal Policy in a Period of Increasing Substance Abuse, 1963–1981. Yale, 2002 (CH, Mar’03, 40-4205).

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Parsons, Elaine Frantz. Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Johns Hopkins, 2003.

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Pennock, Pamela E. Advertising Sin and Sickness: The Politics of Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing, 1950–1990. Northern Illinois, 2007 (CH, Dec’07, 45-2227).

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Regan-Lefebvre, Jennifer. Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World. California, 2022 (CH, Jan’23, 60-1507).

Robert, Julie. Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 (CH, Sep’23, 61-0148).

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Salinger, Sharon V. Taverns and Drinking in Early America. Johns Hopkins, 2002 (CH, Feb’03, 40-3615).

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Toner, Deborah. Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. Nebraska, 2015 (CH, Nov’15, 53-1176).

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