‘Under the influence’. The fight against the 'evil drink' in nineteenth-century England
This chapter, based on research for my PhD thesis, examines the excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages in nineteenth-century England, especially by the working classes, and the attempts by the temperance societies to combat it. The reasons for excessive drinking, the 'discovery' of the...
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| Format: | bookPart |
| Language: | eng |
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2000
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/63070 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/63070 |