{"product_id":"alcohol-in-the-age-of-industry-empire-and-war-9781350217713","title":"Alcohol in the Age of Industry Empire and War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines alcohol production, consumption, regulation, and commerce, alongside the gendered, medical, religious, ideological, and cultural practices that surrounded alcohol from 1850 to 1950. Through analyzing major changes in alcohol's place in society, contributors demonstrate the important connections between industrialization, empire-building, and the growth of the nation-state. They also identify the diverse actors and communities that built, contested, and resisted those processes around the world.   Overall, this book proposes a new global framework that is vital to understanding how deeply alcohol was involved in central processes shaping the modern world. It shows how empires were partly built through alcohol, in both economic and ideological terms, yet alcohol production, trade, and consumption were also sites for anti-colonial resistance. Contributors also discuss how alcohol regulations and public health discourses increasingly revealed the intent and reach of stat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributor Bios List of Illustrations 1. Introduction: Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire and War, \u003ci\u003eDeborah Toner (University of Leicester, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Production, \u003ci\u003eAndrew McMichael (Western Kentucky University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Consumption, \u003ci\u003eJames Kneale (UCL, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Regulation and Prohibition, \u003ci\u003eDan Malleck (Brock University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Commerce, \u003ci\u003eGina Hames\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Pacific Lutheran University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Medicine and Health,\u003ci\u003e Sarah Tracy (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Oklahoma, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Gender and Sexuality, \u003ci\u003eStella Moss (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Religion and Ideology, \u003ci\u003eDeborah Toner (University of Leicester, UK) and Paul Townend (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Cultural Representations, \u003ci\u003eDeborah Toner (University of Leicester, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51618812952919,"sku":"9781350217713","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350217713.jpg?v=1756903525","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/alcohol-in-the-age-of-industry-empire-and-war-9781350217713","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}