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Narratives of Drunkenness : Belgium, 1830-1914.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives in Economic and Social History SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317320807
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Narratives of DrunkennessDDC classification:
  • 362.2920949309034
LOC classification:
  • HV5045.V54 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I: Drunkenness and the People -- 1 Drunken Farmers -- 2 Drunkenness and the Working Classes -- 3 Drunkenness and the Middle Classes -- 4 Drunkenness and the Upper Classes -- 5 Drunkenness in the Colony -- Part II: The Politics of Drunkenness -- 6 Laissez Faire, Laissez Buver: 1830-86 -- 7 Catholics, Liberals, Socialists: Change and Drink: 1880-9 -- 8 Remedying Dangerousness: 1889-1914 -- Part III: Drunkenness and its Specialists -- 9 Hygienists -- 10 Alienists -- 11 Criminal Anthropologists -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: Focusing on Belgium from the mid-nineteenth century until the First World War, Vleugels presents a study of the drunkard in society.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I: Drunkenness and the People -- 1 Drunken Farmers -- 2 Drunkenness and the Working Classes -- 3 Drunkenness and the Middle Classes -- 4 Drunkenness and the Upper Classes -- 5 Drunkenness in the Colony -- Part II: The Politics of Drunkenness -- 6 Laissez Faire, Laissez Buver: 1830-86 -- 7 Catholics, Liberals, Socialists: Change and Drink: 1880-9 -- 8 Remedying Dangerousness: 1889-1914 -- Part III: Drunkenness and its Specialists -- 9 Hygienists -- 10 Alienists -- 11 Criminal Anthropologists -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Focusing on Belgium from the mid-nineteenth century until the First World War, Vleugels presents a study of the drunkard in society.

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