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, newly available in paperback, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071908637X
• ISBN13: 9780719086373
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"