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Elizabeth Marshall, The Drinking Curriculum: A Cultural History of Childhood and Alcohol (Fordham University Press, 2024)

In The Drinking Curriculum, Elizabeth Marshall brings the taboo topic of alcohol and childhood into the limelight. Marshall coins the term “the drinking curriculum” to describe how a paradoxical set of cultural lessons about childhood are fuelled by adult anxieties and preoccupations. By analyzing popular and widely accessible texts in visual culture—temperance tracts, cartoons, film, advertise­ments, and public-service announcements—Marshall demonstrates how youth are targets of mixed messages about intoxication. Those messages range from the overtly violent to the humorous, the moralistic to the profane. Offering a critical and, at times, irreverent analysis of dominant protec­tionist paradigms that sanctify childhood as implicitly innocent, The Drinking Curriculum centers the graphic narratives our culture uses to teach about alcohol, the roots of these pictorial tales in the nineteenth century, and the discursive hangover we nurse into the twenty-first.

Deborah Toner (ed.), Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire and War (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). 

Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire, and War: Deborah Toner: Bloomsbury Academic

Featuring chapters by Network members James Kneale, Dan Malleck, Andrew McMichael, Stella Moss and Deborah Toner, this 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.

Deborah Toner, Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)Nebraska book cover
 
 
Network co-ordinator Deborah Toner’s first book has just been published by University of Nebraska Press, examining how debates about alcohol were connected to nation-building processes and discourses in nineteenth-century Mexico. This interdisciplinary study, analysing novels, newspapers, medical texts and archival records, illustrates how wide-ranging the connections were between ideas about drinking, poverty, crime, insanity, citizenship, patriotism, gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity in the nineteenth century. It is available here, or contact the author for a discount copy.
 
 
Hailwood and Toner (eds) Biographies of Drink: A Case Study Approach to our Historical Relationship with Alcohol (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015)
 
 
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A collection of essays by network members resulting from our 2013 conference, in which a range of scholars from different disciplinary and chronological backgrounds all contribute to an overarching conversation about the various roles of alcohol in human societies by providing a ‘biographical’ case study focused on subjects as varied as particular drinking vessels, pub design aesthetics, genres of literature and advertising campaigns. Edited by network coordinators Mark Hailwood and Deborah Toner and available here.

Mark Hailwood, Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England (Boydell & Brewer, 2014) 9781843839422

Network co-ordinator Mark Hailwood’s first book has just been published by Boydell and Brewer, charting the history of the English pub in what he argues was both its ‘golden age’ and most important formative years, the period 1550-1700. It covers a wide range of issues from developments in the regulation of alehouses to the role of drinking in the formation of gender roles and communities, and should interest anyone interested in the history of drinking. It is available here.

Warwick Drinking Studies Network’s Special Edition of the journal Brewery History, 150 (2013) 150_cover_image

The network is delighted to announce the first publication to emerge under its banner: a special peer-review edition of the journal Brewery History (Issue 150), subtitled: ‘Developments in the Brewing, Retail and Consumption of Alcohol in Early Modern England’. The edition showcases the work of four early career scholars, each network members, working in the field of early modern drinking studies. Kristen Burton explores the introduction of hops and commercial brewing to England in this period; Matthew Jackson offers a fresh interpretation of the role of the female publican in France and England; Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin reconstructs the spatial and material culture of guild feasts; and Mark Hailwood examines seventeenth-century understandings of the effects of alcohol. The edition is edited by network coordinators Mark Hailwood and Deborah Toner, and is free to access here. ** An earlier special edition of Brewery History on ‘Brewing Cultures in Early Modern Towns’, edited by the network’s Beat Kümin, is also free to access here.**

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