The Politics of Alcohol: A History of the Drink Question in England

by James Nicholls

Book Overview

Questions about drink - how it is used, how it should be regulated and the social risks it presents - have been a source of sustained and heated dispute in recent years. In The politics of alcohol, Nicholls puts these concerns in historical context by providing a detailed and extensive survey of public debates on alcohol from the introduction of licensing in the mid-sixteenth century through to recent controversies over 24-hour licensing, binge drinking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719077052
• ISBN13: 9780719077050
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"