Author : Cheryl Lynn Krasnick Warsh
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780773511262
Book Description
Nine essays explore aspects of alcohol consumption and regulation, and public attitudes about it, in Canada from the 1830s to the 1980s. Among them are how prohibitionist campaigns unified ethnic communities, the association of women alcoholics with prostitution and child neglect, institutions for alcoholics, the Temperance Act in the 1880s and 1890s, and the economics of rum running. Canadian card order number: C93-090466-4. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR