Alcohol, Violence, and Disorder in Traditional Europe

by A. Lynn Martin

Traditional Europe had high levels of violence and of alcohol consumption, both higher than they are in modern Western societies, where studies demonstrate a link between violence and alcohol. A. Lynn Martin uses an anthropological approach to examine drinking, drinking establishments, violence, and disorder, and compares the wine-producing south with the beer-drinking north and Catholic France and Italy with Protestant England, and explores whether...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931112967
• ISBN13: 9781931112963
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"