Alcohol Flows Across Cultures : Drinking Cultures in Transnational and Comparative Perspective.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Alcohol flows across cultures: drinking cultures in transnational and comparative perspective -- Notes -- 2. The same drink? Wine and absinthe consumption and drinking cultures among French and Muslim groups in nineteenth-century Algeria -- Classes of absinthe -- Glasses of Frenchness -- Progress through Gallic drunkenness -- Drinking beyond dichotomies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Drinking and production patterns of wine in North Africa during French colonisation, c. 1830-1956 -- Different colonialisms and French perspectives on alcohol -- Colonial politics and alcohol policies -- Colonial control of alcohol trade and consumption among North Africans -- Wine production, export and consumption patterns -- Beer, spirits and the control of drinking behaviours -- Drinking places -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Drinking dis-ease: Alcohol and colonialism in the international city of Tangier, c. 1912-1956 -- Alcohol flows in the modern city -- Tangerian dis-ease -- International drinking -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Between promotions and prohibitions: The shifting symbolisms and spaces of beer in modern Turkey -- Locating alcohol and the flow of beer in Turkish history -- From state prohibitions to state monopolies -- Promotions and privatisation -- From garden to gateway -- From reclassification to "Şerefine Tayyip!" -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 6. Good hope for the pilsner: Commerce, culture and the consumption of the pilsner beer in British Southern Africa, c. 1870-1914 -- The context -- Modern brewing: technology and styles -- Modern brewing: business strategies -- From Cape ales to Jo'burg lagers and the role of migration -- Pilsner production in South Africa -- Conclusion.

Notes -- 7. "A hotbed of sins" or "just like home"? Drinking cultures in colonial Qingdao (1897-1914) -- German colonialism in China -- A Bierfest in China? -- Alcohol in Qingdao -- Alcohol consumption among Germans in Qingdao -- Alcohol consumption in Qingdao in the crossfire -- German-Chinese relations and alcohol -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. Filched fungi? Bioprospecting and the circulation of "Chinese yeast", c. 1892-1933 -- Theoretical perspectives: biopiracy, bioprospecting, discovery -- The development of Chinese yeast -- The rise of industrial alcohol -- Chinese yeast: the colonial context -- Chinese yeast: research journals, industry bulletins, popular science -- The circulation of "Chinese yeast" -- Chinese yeast, power fuel and scientific nationalism in China -- Expertise and Chinese yeast -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9. Gariahat Whisky: Bootlegged cosmopolitanism and the making of the nationalistic state, Calcutta c. 1923-1935 -- Cosmopolitanism and smuggling -- Bootlegged cosmopolitanism -- Bootlegged cosmopolitanism and the emergent nationalistic state -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10. "Lurvenbrow": Bavarian beer culture and barstool diplomacy in the global market, 1945-1964 -- "A delocalising effect"- Bavarian brewers and the political economy of taste -- "A magnificent advertisement"- from quality to authenticity -- "A most objectionable and ill-timed resurrection of the Nazi image"- Cold War success on display at the 1964 World's Fair -- "A beer that does not meet Munich tastes"- coda -- Notes -- 11. Twenty-first-century transnational neo-temperance -- Understanding TSI -- TSI on the move -- TSI: temperance reinvented -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Across a wide geographic range, this book maps changing patterns of drinking. Emphasis is laid on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe regarding consumption patterns, government policies, economics and representations of alcohol and drinking.

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