Mack P Holt

Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History Mack P Holt

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Avail. in cloth. Biographical Note: Mack Holt is Professor of History at George Mason University. Table of Contents: Part I: Alcohol in Early Modern Europe, ca. 1500-1800 * The Art of Drinking in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Europe--Ken Albala * Europe Divided: Wine and Beer in the Reformation--Mack P. Holt * Drinking and Alehouses in the Diary of an English Mercer's Apprentice, 1663-1674--A. Lynn Martin * To the King o'er the Water: Scotland and Claret, c. 1660-1763--Charles Cameron Ludington * Taverns and the Public Sphere in the French Revolution--Thomas Brennan * Part II: Alcohol in Modern Europe, 1800 to the Present * Drink, Sociability and Class in France, 1789-1945--W. Scott Haine * Mon docteur le vin: Wine and Health in France, 1900-1950--Kim Mulholland * History of Alcohol with a Splash of Water--Rod Phillips * A Social History of the Russian Tavern (Kabak)--Patricia Herlihy * In Vino Veritas: The Construction of Alcoholic Disease in Liberal Italy, 1880-1914--Paul A. Garfinkel * Part III: Alcohol in the New World * Drinking in the United States: A Kaleidoscope in Motion, 1600-2000--Jack S. Blocker, Jr. * Tippling Philosophers: Taverns, Drink, and the Expansion of the Public Sphere in Southern New England, 1740-1820--David W. Conroy * The Lore of the Brotherhood: Continiuty and Change in Urban American Saloon Culture, 1870-1920--Madelon M. Powers * Drinking the Good Life: Australia c.1880-1980--Diane KirkbyPublisher Marketing: This work examines how alcohol has evolved in its functions and uses in the late Middle Ages to the present day in the West. It discusses a range of issues, including domestic versus recreational use, the history of alcoholism and the relationship between alcohol and violence.

Contributor Bio:  Holt, Mack P Mack P. Holt is Professor of History at the George Mason University. His previous publications include The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle during the Wars of Religion (1986) and Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500 1648 (2002, ed.).