Drink and the Victorians: The Temperance Question in England, 1815-1872 (Second Edition)

by Brian Harrison

Overview

This scholarly treatise discusses temperance and drink in Victorian England. Topics including the political, social, and economic factors that affected the temperance movement; subgroups of the movement; as well as biographies of movement leaders. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's online version of the same title.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148386766
Publisher:	ACLS Humanities E-Book
Publication date:	08/13/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	522
File size:	12 MB
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Editorial Reviews

Drink and the Victorians is a masterful study of one of the most important moral crusades of the period and of the social conditions which spawned it. The book transcends previous categories of substantive concern in Victorian social and political history without sacrificing analytical focus or historiographical sophistication. Prodigiously researched and densely written, Drink and the Victorians is a professional historian's book.

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Spring, 1974), pp. 673-676 - Richard D. French

Drink and the Victorians is a remarkable book in that, except for the internal history of the brewing and spirit-manufacturing industry, the author appears to have investigated every conceivable facet of his complex subject on the basis of primary source evidence while at the same time demonstrating a mastery of the secondary literature on kindred social reform movements in England and elsewhere.

The American Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 4 (Oct., 1973), pp. 1064-1065 - Walter L. Arnstein