History of Drink and the English, 1500-2000
Details:
- Author(s) Jennings, Paul
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2016
- Pages 218pp; illus
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published Abingdon
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly work providing a largely social and cultural history of alcoholic drink in England from the end of the Middle Ages to the early 21st century. 'Treating the subject thematically, it covers who drank, what they drank, how much, who produced and sold drink, the places where it was enjoyed and the meanings which drinking had for people. It also looks at the varied opposition to drinking and the ways in which it has been regulated and policed'. Has chapters: 'Drinking'; 'Producers and sellers'; 'Places and spaces'; 'Meanings'; 'Drunks'; 'Anti-drink'; 'Regulation'