Alcohol and Moral Regulation

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.

Atitudinile fata de alcool - si amploarea si rata consumului sau - au suferit modificari considerabile de-a lungul secolelor. In fata preocuparii contemporane cu cresterea consumului de alcool, Alcoolul si reglementarea morala ofera o perspectiva istorica racoritoare, explicand ca anxietatile legate de alcool sunt probabil cel mai bine intelese ca o „mahmureala” din perioada victoriana.