Alcohol and Moral Regulation: Public Attitudes, Spirited Measures and Victorian Hangovers - Hardcover

Yeomans, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447309936 ISBN 13: 9781447309932

Publisher: Policy Press, 2014

Synopsis

Attitudes toward alcohol―and the extent and rate of its consumption―have undergone considerable changes over the centuries. In the face of contemporary concern with increased drinking, Alcohol and Moral Regulation offers a refreshing historical perspective, explaining that anxieties about alcohol are perhaps best understood as a “hangover” from the Victorian period. Drawing on extensive historical research, the volume puts contemporary attitudes in context, and thus gives scholars and policy makers alike a more nuanced way to approach analyses of, and approaches to, contemporary drinking.

About this title

About the Author:

Henry Yeomans is a lecturer in criminology and criminal justice studies at the University of Leeds.

Review:

“Yeomans’s thought-provoking book explores how laws and beliefs regarding alcohol evolved in Britain. The historical analysis is useful for contextualizing present-day debates about alcohol-related issues.” (Tiffany Bergin, Kent State University)

“Yeoman’s enjoyable book offers an important perspective on Britain’s historical relationship with alcohol.” (David Beckingham, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge Law, Crime and History)

“A provocative analysis of the interrelated moral and legal frameworks through which alcohol consumption has been regulated in Britain since the eighteenth century.” (British Journal of Criminology)

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1447309936
• ISBN 13: 9781447309932
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256