Alcohol : a social and cultural history / edited by Mack P. Holt.

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.

ix, 246 pages ; 24 cm

English ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

To your health : wine as food and medicine in mid-sixteenth-century Italy / Ken Albala -- Europe divided : wine, beer, and the Reformation in sixteenth-century Europe / Mack P. Holt -- In the public sphere : efforts to curb the consumption of rum in Connecticut, 1760-1820 / David W. Conroy -- In vino veritas : the construction of alcoholic disease in liberal Italy, 1880-1914 / Paul A. Garfinkel -- Mon docteur le vin : wine and health in France, 1900-1950 / Kim Munholland -- Drinking and alehouses in the diary of an English mercer's apprentice, 1663-1674 / A. Lynn Martin -- Taverns and the public sphere in the French Revolution / Thomas Brennan -- Drink, sociability, and social class in France, 1789-1945 : the emergence of a proletarian public sphere / W. Scott Haine -- The lore of the brotherhood : continuity and change in urban American saloon culture, 1870-1920 / Madelon M. Powers -- " To the king o'er the water" : Scotland and claret, c. 1660-1763 / Charles Cameron Ludington -- Revenue and revelry on tap : the Russian tavern / Patricia Herlihy -- Drinking the good life : Australia c. 1880-1980 / Diane Kirkby -- Kaleidoscope in motion : drinking in the United States, 1400-2000 / Jack S. Blocker, Jr.