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Bibliography in progress on the history of coffee (and more)

The website for Bob Thurston's coffee conference (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA, 31 October-1 November 2008) includes a bibliography in progress on the history of coffee (and more). The website is:

www.coffeeconference.org

The website provides details about the program and explains how to register for the conference.

A Bibliography In Progress on the History of Coffee (and more)

Bibliography, filmography, and sites compiled by Robert Thurston, Miami University. thurstrw@muohio.edu

Please send notations of works not cited here to Robert Thurston

Some works not yet located

http://www.iisd.org/trade/commodities/sci_coffee_documents.asp

Johann Jacobs Museum: collection of books, posters, prints. Seefeldquai 17, P.O. Box 147 Zurich CH-8034 385-12-83. Fr-Sat 14-17, Sun 10-17. Visited in 2001, 2006.

Museum of Coffee Technology, Probat-Werke GmbH, Reeser Str. 94, P.O. Box 100752, D-46446 Emmerich, Germany. E-mail: i.jerkovic@probat.com Tel: (49)(2822) 912-313

Albrecht, Peter, Kaffee: zur Sozialgeschichte eines Getraenks; [Ausstellung, Braunschweig, 10.1.- 2.3.1980]

1980 German Book 70 S Ill. Braunschweig
Entry 19710101
Update 20020410
Accession No OCLC 46086519

Allen, Stewart Lee. The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History. New York: Soho, 1999

Alvarez, Julia A Cafecito Story Chelsea Green Publishing 2004

Amoah, J. E. K. The story of cocoa, coffee, and sheanut : environmental issues and food values Accra-North, Ghana : Jemre Enterprises, c2000

The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, trans. into French by Antoine Galland, 1704. English 1706.

Auslander, Leora. Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France. Berkeley: U C Pr 1996

Bach, J. S. Kaffeekantate, 1732

Baer, Werner, The Brazilian economy : growth and development. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001 5th ed

Ball, Daniela U. Kaffee im Speigel europaischer Trinksitten. Coffee in the Context of European Drinking Habits. Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich 1991. Veröffentlichungen des Johann Jacobs Museums zur Kulturgeschichte des Kaffees, Band 2.

Balzac, Honore de, Du café, 1838.

Barry, Dave. “The Miami Airport,” in Big Trouble. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1999

Bates, Robert H. Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Beckford, George L. Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World 1972

Best Commercials of the ‘50s and ‘60s

Bevir, Mark, and Frank Trentmann, eds. Governance, Citizens and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics (Consumption and Public Life) NY: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007.

Bioscience 46, no. 8 (Sept. ‘96) on shade coffee

Bradshaw, Steve. Café Society. London: 1978.

Blixen, Karen. Out of Africa (The Ngong Farm)

Boehnke-Reich, Heinrich 1885. Not found.

Burnett, John, “Coffee in the British diet, 1650-1990,” in Kaffee im Spiegel

Cafes & coffee shops no. 2 / [editor] Martin M. Pegler New York: Visual Reference Pub., 2001

Caffeinated beverages : health benefits, physiological effects, and chemistry / Thomas H. Parliment, Chi-Tang Ho, Peter Schieberle, editors. Washington, D.C. : American Chemical Society, 2000

“Caffeine and the Enlightenment,” Raritan (2003)

Carbи (Carbe?), Antonio, Il caffe nella storia e nell'arte 1986 2. ed. ampliata Italian Book 95 p. ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. [Milano] Centro Luigi Lavazza per gli studi e le ricerche sul caffe,

Entry 19900321
Update 19970816
Accession No OCLC 37482268

Castle, Timothy James and Joan Nielsen. The great coffee book. Berkeley, Calif. : Ten Speed Press, c1999

Clark, Taylor. Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture. Little, Brown, and Co. 2007

Clayton, Antony. London's Coffee Houses: A Stimulating Story. London: Phillimore, 2003.

Coffee: a sackful of power / Alexandre Valenti; Gisele Catel 1998, 1997 Portuguese Visual Material Videorecording VHS tape 1 videocassette (52 min.) sd., col., ; 1/2 in. New York, N.Y. Filmakers Library,

Entry 19990108
Update 20000718
Accession No OCLC 40590598

Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity. 1934 docudrama

Coffee: recent developments / edited by R. J. Clarke and O. G. Vitzthum. (Oxford ; Malden, MA: Blackwell Science, 2001)

Collier, George, with Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello. Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas. Oakland, Calif.: Food First, 1994.

Colombian coffee advertising campaign. http://www.juanvaldez.com/menu/advertising/campaign.html

Le commerce du caféé avant l’ère des plantations coloniales: espaces, réseaux, sociétés (XVe-XIXe siècle) / dit par Michel Tuchscherer. Le Caire: Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 2001.

Coste, Rene. Les Caféiers et les Cafés dans le Monde. 3 v. Paris: Larose, 1959-1961.

Courtwright, David Forces of habit: drugs and the making of the modern world Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001

Cowan, Brian. The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005

Cycon, Dean. Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee

Davenport-Hines, Richard. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics 1500-2000. London: Weidenfeld, 2001).

Dean, Warren. With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).

Di’Conti, Nicolo

Dicum, Gregory and Nina Luttinger. The coffee book: anatomy of an industry from crop to the last drop (New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1999)

Doyle, Christopher “Caffeine Culture Before Starbucks: Shared Interests, Outlooks, and Addictions in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Coffeehouses,” Magazine of History The Atlantic World 18, no. 3, (April 2004) in same no. article on porcelain

DuFour, Sylvester. Traité nouveau et curieux du café, du thé, et du chocolat

Edelbauer, Leopold J., Kaffee: Alles ueber ein Genussmittel das die Welt veraenderte

2000 German Book 119 p. col. ill. ; 25 cm. Wien Pichler,

Entry 20000501
Update 20000818
Accession No OCLC 44775596

Elias, Norbert The Civilizing Process

Ellis, John, 1710?-1776 An historical account of coffee : with an engraving, and botanical description of the tree : to which are added sundry papers relative to its culture and use, as an article of diet and of commerce London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1774

Ellis, Markman, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. ISBN: 0297843192

The entrepreneurship dynamic: origins of entrepreneurship and the evolution of industries, ed. Claudia Bird Schoonhoven and Elaine Romanelli. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001

Ferré, Felip. Kaffee: Eine Kulturgeschichte (Fr. L’aventure du café) Paris: Denoel, 1988).

Fridell, Gavin. Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2007.

Giovannucci, Daniele works on the web

Globalization on the ground: postbellum Guatemalan democracy and development, ed. Christopher Chase-Dunn, Susanne Jonas, and Nelson Amaro. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001 Ch. 8 Coffee and the Guatemalan State / Stephen G. Bunker

Goldoni, Carlo The coffee house ; translated by Jeremy Parzen ; introduction by Franco Fido New York : Marsilio Publishers, 1998

Gresser, Charis and Sophia Tickell Mugged: Poverty in Your Coffee Cup Oxfam, 2002 www.maketradefair.com/assets/english/mugged.pdf

Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Trans. Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989.

Hadwiger, Peter, Jochen Hippler, [und] Helmut Lotz Kaffee: Gewöhnheit und Konsequenz /, gemeinsam herausgegeben mit der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Partnerschaft mit der Dritten Welt. St. Gallen : Edition diб, 1984, c1983

Haines, F. H. Historian of Lloyd’s

Hanoum, Leila. Souvenir sur le harem

Hattox, Ralph S. Coffee and coffeehouses : the origins of a social beverage in the medieval Near East Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1988

Heise, Ulla. Coffee and coffee-houses West Chester, Penn.: Schiffer Pub., 1987

Heise, Ulla, and Beatrix Wolff Metternich, Freifrau von. Coffeum wirft die Jungfrau um Kaffee und Erotik /

1998 German Book 124 p. ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Leipzig Gustav Kiepenheuer, ISBN3378010282

Entry 19980921
Update 20000413
Accession No OCLC 40289747

Howard, Brian C. “Grounds for Change, The Tempest Brewing in Your Morning Cup,” E/The Environmental Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 2005, on line at http://www.emagazine.com/?issue=123&toc.

Howell, James ?

Hünersdorff, Richard von, and Holger G. Hasenkamp Coffee: A bibliography. Two volumes, 1,687 pp. Hünersdorff, PO Box 582, London

Illy, Francesco and I. Riccardo. Kafee von der Bohne zum Espresso (Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1989).

ITC (2002) Coffee: An Exporter’s Guide. International Trade Center. Geneva: UNCTAD/WTO

Jacob, Heinrich Eduard. Sage und Siegeszug des Kaffees; die Biographie eines weltwirtschaftlichen Stoffes. Berlin, Rowohlt [1964]

_________. Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity. trans. Eden and Cedar Paul. NY: Viking, 1935.

Jamieson, R. W., “The Essence of Commodification: Caffeine dependencies in the Early Modern World, Journal of Social History 35, no. 2 (2001) 269-94.

Joffe, Josef ?

Jourdain, John, Eng. visited Mocha 1606

Juenger, Wolfgang, Herr Ober, ein' Kaffee! Illustrierte Kulturgeschichte des Kaffeehauses.

1955 German Book 245 p. illus. 23 cm. Muenchen, W. Goldmann

Entry 19800828
Update 19911115
Accession No OCLC 6664215

Kieran, J. A. “The Origins of Commercial Arabica Coffee Production in East Africa,” African Historical Studies 2, no. 1 (1969), 51-67.

Kikumura, Akemi and Eiichito Azuma and Darcie C. Iki. The Kona Coffee Story: Along the Hawaii Belt Road. Los Angeles, Japanese American National Museum, 1995.

Kinro, Gerald Y. A Cup of Aloha: The Kona Coffee Epic. Honolulu, U of Hawaii Press, 2003.

Knox, Kevin and Julie Sheldon Huffaker. Coffee Basics: a quick and easy guide. New York : John Wiley, c1997.

Koehler, Franz A. Coffee for the Armed Forces: military development and conversion to industry supply Washington, D.C.: Historical Branch, Office of the Quartermaster General, 1958

Kolpas, Norman. A cup of coffee: from plantation to pot, a coffee lover's guide to the perfect brew New York : Grove Press, 1993 Science Lib 3rd Flr TX817.C6 K65 1993

Krug, C. A. and R. A. De Poerck, World Coffee Survey. Rome: FAO, 1968.

Lauria-Santiago, Aldo. An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1923-1914. University of Pittsburgh, 1999.

Lewin, Bryan, Daniele Giovannucci, and Panayotis Varangis. “Coffee Markets: New Paradigms in Global Supply and Demand. Agriculture and Rural Development,” Washington, World Bank, 2004. Available through their web site.

Liss, David The Coffee Trader (novel) NY: Random House, 2003

Lorenzetti, Linda Rice. The birth of coffee. photographs by Daniel Lorenzetti New York : Clarkson Potter, 2000

Massia, Pierre; Hugo Rombouts, Le café.

1995 French Book 174, [2] p. ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 23 cm. Brussels Artoria, ISBN2873911018

Entry 19971204
Update 19971204
Accession No OCLC 38037218

Macfarlane, Alan and Iris, Green Gold: The Empire of Tea. A Remarkable History of the Plant that Took Over the World

Malone ? 1618

Martinez-Torres, Maria Elena. Organic Coffee. Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers. Ohio University, 2006.

McDonald, Michelle Craig. “From cultivation to cup: Caribbean coffee and the North American economy, 1765--1805.” PhD diss U of Michigan 2005. Publication Number: AAT 3163885. Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=885690961&Fmt=2&clientId=26867&RQT=309&VName=PQD ProQuest document ID: 885690961

Michelet, Jules. Mon Journal

Michelli, Joseph. The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary. McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer passage on coffee

Molière. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. 1670.

Morton, Timothy. The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000

________, ed. Radical Food: The Culture and Politics of Eating and Drinking, 1780-1830. Routledge, 2000

Mshomba, Richard E., Africa in the global economy Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. Case 2: From Coffee to Cut Flowers in Tanzania: The International Coffee Agreement.

Multatuli (Edward Dekker), Max Havelaar; or, The coffee sales of the Netherlands Trading Company, (1860) translated from the Dutch by W. Siebenhaar, with an introduction by D. H. Lawrence. New York, London, A.A. Knopf, 1927

Naro, Nancy. A slave's place, a master's world: fashioning dependency in rural Brazil London ; New York : Continuum, 2000.

Ortiz, Fernando. Cuban Counterpoint: Coffee and Sugar. 1941, reprint Duke U. P.

Oxfam. Mugged: Poverty in Your Coffee Cup, 2002. See Gresser above

Paige, Jeffrey M. Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America Harvard U P, 1997.

Pendergrast, Mark. Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world New York : Basic Books, 1999.

Picard, Liza. Dr. Johnson's London : coffee-houses and climbing boys, medicine, toothpaste and gin, poverty and press-gangs, freakshows and female education. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2001

Pico, Fernando Amargo Café on Puerto Rico

Pincus, Steve. “‘Coffee Politicians Does Create’: Coffeehouses and Restoration Political Culture,” Journal of Modern History 67 (December 1995).

Pomeranz, Kenneth and Steven Topik. The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy 1400-the Present. NY: M.E. Sharpe 1999

Posey, Sandra Mizumoto Café nation: coffee folklore, magick, and divination. Santa Monica, CA : Santa Monica Press, 2000.

Rekel, Gerhard, Der Duft des Kaffees: Die Geschichte einer Verschwörung, Roman, 260 Seiten (dtv, 2006) ISBN 3-423-24505-0

Reid, T. R. “Caffeine,” National Geographic 207, no. 1 (January 2005).

Rice, Paul D. and Jennifer McLean, Sustainable Coffee at the Crossroads Consumer’s Choice Council, Washington DC, 1999

Rice, Robert, “Coffee Production in a Time of Crisis: Social and Environmental Connections,” SAIS Review 23, no. 1 (January 1, 2003), 221-245. Available http://journals.ohio.link.edu

Rimbaud, Arthur. Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre. A season in hell & The drunken boat. English translation by Louise Varèe. Norfolk, Conn., J. Laughlin, 1961.

Rindova, Violina P. and Charles J. Fombrun Entrepreneurial Action in the Creation of the Specialty Coffee Niche

Rodekamp, Volker, Martin Beutelspacher, and Ursula Ahlers, Kaffee, Kultur eines Getraenks Mindener Museum, 1987 /

1987 German Book 119 p. 65 ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Minden Das Museum,

Entry 19890927
Update 19950504
Accession No OCLC 21674126

Roden, Claudia. Coffee London: Faber & Faber, 1977.

Roseberry, William, Lowell Gudmundson, and Mario Samper Kutschbach, eds., Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

Safford, Frank and Marco Palacios. Colombia: fragmented land, divided society New York : Oxford University Press, 2002

Salvandy, Narcisse-Achille ?

Schapira, Joel, David, & Karl. The book of coffee & tea; a guide to the appreciation of fine coffees, teas, and herbal beverages. illustrated by Meri Shardin New York, St. Martin's Press [c1975]

Schindler, Anton On Beethoven & coffee

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants. Trans. David Jacobson (NY: Vintage, 1992).

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. “The Romance of Caffeine and Aluminum,” in Things, ed. Bill Brown (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2004).

Schnyder-v. Waldkirch, Antoinette. Kleine Kulturgeschichte des Kaffees. Zurich, J. J. Museum, 1991.

Schultz, Howard, and Dori Jones Yang Pour your heart into it: How Starbucks built a company one cup at a time New York, NY : Hyperion, 1997

Sick, Deborah (1999) Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households and the Global Coffee Economy. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press.

Simmons, John. My Sister's a Barista: How They Made Starbucks a Home Away from Home. London: Cyan Communications; Rev Ed edition, 2005.

Smith, Gary Michael, Coffee and coffeehouses: a local and international history

1999 English Book vii, 51 p. ; 22 cm. New Orleans, LA Chatgris Press, ISBN0965838021

Entry 20000719
Update 20000719
Accession No OCLC 44613640

Die sozialen Verhaeltnisse der Kaffee-haus-Angestellten; eine Gefahr fuer das Kaffeehaus besuchende Publikum.

Gehilfenausschuss der Genossenschaft der Kaffeesieder in Wien.; Zentral-Organisation der Hotel,-Gast-und Kaffeehausangestellten Oesterreichs, und vom Gehifenausschuss der Genossenschaft der Kaffeesieder in Wien. 1913 German Book 29 p. Wien,

Entry 19990309
Update 19990309
Accession No OCLC 40930893

Standage, Tom. A History of the World in Six Glasses. NY: Walker and Company, 2005.

Stella, Alain. Le livre du cafe (Paris: Flammarion, 1996).

St. Serfe, Thomas, Sir, fl. Tarugo's wiles, or, The coffee-house: a comedy: as it was acted at His Highness's the Duke of York's Theater. London : Printed for Henry Herringman, 1668. Microform Storage - IMC PR 1101 .E372 1368:14

Stewart, Randal G. Coffee: The Political Economy of an Export Industry in Papua New Guinea 1992

Sweet, Leonard. The Gospel According to Starbucks: Living with a Grande Passion. WaterBrook Press, 2007.

Talbot, John. Grounds for Agreement. The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain. Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.

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Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689. The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, through Turky, into Persia and the East-Indies, for the space of forty years [electronic resource] : giving an account of the present state of those countries ... : to which is added, a new description of the seraglio / made English by J. P. ; added likewise, A voyage into the Indies, &c. by an English traveller, never before printed, publish'd by Dr Daniel Cox. London : Printed by William Godbid, for Robert Littlebury at the King's Arms in Little Britain, and Moses Pitt at the Angel in St Paul's Church-yard, 1677 Internet Resource PR 1101 ONLINE

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Topik, Steven C., and William Gervase Clarence-Smith, eds., The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989. Cambridge, England: Cambridge U P, 2003 HD9195.A3512 G58 2003

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Voltaire, Le café, ou l’Écossaise, 1760. Eng. translation same year as The Coffee House, or Fair Fugitive.

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Weinberg, Bennett Alan and Bonnie K. Bealer. The world of caffeine: the science and culture of the world's most popular drug. New York: Routledge, 2001

Weiss, Brad. Sacred Trees, Bitter Harvests: Globalizing Coffee in Northwest Tanzania. Heinemann, 2003.

Wien und seine Kaffeehaeuser: Eine literarischer Streifung durch die beruhmstesten Cafes der Donaumetropole. Herausgegeben von Petra Neumann. Muenchen: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1997.

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Wintgens, Jean Nicolas, ed. Coffee: Growing, Processing, Sustainable Production. A Guidebook for Growers, Processors, Traders, and Researchers. Wiley/VCH, 2004.

Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850-1990. ed. Heather Fowler-Salamini and Mary Kay Vaughn Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994.

Wrigley on coffee ??

Young, Arthur on Fr. Cafes on eve of Rev.

Young, Isabel Nelson. The story of coffee; history, growing, preparation for market, characteristics, vacuum packing, brewing. New York? 1935.

Filmography

Black Coffee

Black Gold, documentary film, Mark and Nick Francis, Britain, 2006.

Caffe Ambience

Cappuccino Trail

Coffee Tea Production and Vintage Commericals

Gourmet Coffee

Kauai Coffee

Men with Guns, feature film, dir. John Sayles, US, 1997

The Passionate Harvest.

Spilling the Beans

The strength of the indigenous people of Mut Vitz (Svokolik vatz'l viniketik sventa Mut Vitz), documentary video produced by the Chiapas Media Project Chicago, IL : Chiapas Media Project, 2000

Vintage Coffee and Coffee House films historical films: classic coffee ads, coffee industry films, coffee training films for workers.

Coffee conference at Miami University (Ohio), 31 October-1 November 98)

Here is a tentative conference schedule for Robert Thurston's coffee conference at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA, 31 October-1 November 2008. Details about registration will follow.

Tentative Conference Schedule

Friday October 31-Saturday November 1, 2008.

Friday

1) Research on the coffee plant and its ecology

Robert Rice, Smithsonian Bird Project

Kennedy T. K. Gitonga, Research Officer - Economist, Ruiru, Kenya

Stuart McCook, Guelph University, on coffee rust disease

Comment Charlie Kwit, Wittenberg U.

2) Sustainability

Geoff Watts, Intelligentsia Coffee, on sustainability

Ernest Carman, Caf Cristina, Costa Rica, on running a sustainable farm

Comment SCAA rep

3) Structure of the coffee business

Ilhem Baghdadli, World Bank

P&G rep to be named

comment ?

Keynote address following dinner by Sidney Mintz, Johns Hopkins University

Saturday

4) Selling coffee

Kim Moore, Dir. of Business DevelopmentCoffee and Hot Beverages, TransFair USA

Manoel Correa do Lago, Rio de Janeiro, coffee exporter

comment?

5) Situation of small farmers

PEARL Project, Michigan State U. Dan Clay or another rep.

Cecocafen rep (Nicaragua) Guatemalan farmer?

comment ?

6) Taste and images

Kenneth Davids The Coffee Review, Consumption from a theoretical pt of view

Robert Thurston, Miami U. The changing image of coffee 1660-present

Comment Bruce Robbins, Columbia U.

7) The popularity and spread of coffee

Steven Topik, UC Irvine Why Americans Came to Like Coffee

Jonathan Morris, U. of Hertfordshire, Why the British Like Italian Coffee

comment William Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, U. Of London

Conference on the Moral, Economic, and Social Life of Coffee

A Conference on the Moral, Economic, and Social Life of Coffee
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (fall 2008)

organized by Robert Thurston, Professor of History, Miami U.
thurstrw@muohio.edu

Dates: Friday, October 31-Saturday, November 1, 2008.

Participants are asked to reach Oxford, using the Cincinnati (CVG) or Dayton (DAY)
international airport, one day before the conference begins.

Purpose: To bring together people from business and academia, drawing
from various sectors and levels of the coffee business and from
scholars who study the industry, the drink, and its impact on
societies around the world. To discuss the problems facing coffee
farmers, sustainable production, the environment, and the future of
coffee. To increase public awareness of issues of politics, ecology,
and social justice connected with the industry. To develop materials
for a book that will draw together stories and opinions from many
areas and levels of coffee production, processing, and marketing. To
develop a portal web site for coffee studies.

Audience: General and academic. Miami University, a beautiful campus,
is located an hour from both Cincinnati and Dayton, two hours from
Columbus; Lexington, Kentucky; and Bloomington and Indianapolis,
Indiana. Oxford, Ohio is an hour from both the Cincinnati and Dayton
airports. Announcements of the conference will be placed on listservs
and in academic and trade journals. Anticipated attendance is
150-200.

Background: Coffee is the second most valuable commodity traded
legally around the world. It has played a crucial role in
globalization since the 17th century, and it is central to the study
of globalization's continuing effects. Grown in more than 50
countries by 20-25 million families, then processed, traded, and sold
by millions of other people. Coffee is an immensely important item in
the world economy. Beginning with English coffee houses in the 1650s,
the drink's impact on western social, cultural, and political life has
been huge. It has played a major role in social upheaval in Latin
America but also in achieving stability in Costa Rica. Coffee has
been a basic factor in bringing profound social and racial change to
various regions of the world, while it has provided an important
source of foreign exchange to many producing countries.

Keynote Speaker: Sidney Mintz, one of the world's foremost
anthropologists, author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in
Modern History. Professor Mintz will speak on issues of how and why
consumers "choose" various commodities among all those available to
them. His talk will bring insights from anthropology and history
together and will provide a framework for the conference.

The Conference: Speakers will consider coffee's past and continuing
impact on issues of labor supply and conditions, market fluctuations,
new technology, the environment (including eco-tourism), political
change, and social justice. Bringing people involved in the business,
from farms to roasters to multi-national firms, together with scholars
concerned with many aspects of coffee's impact in past and present
should produce a forum for lively and productive interchange.

Anticipated Results: A book drawn from conference proceedings should
have wide appeal for classroom use and general readers. The organizer
has experience in producing such a volume. The book will present
stories and opinions about what is involved at each level of the
coffee business and present case studies of coffee's social,
political, and environmental impact. Since the point of the
conference is to allow participants to communicate with each other and
the general public about coffee, articles will be jargon-free and
clear. We also plan to create a permanent web site as a portal to
other sites, articles, and bibliographies on coffee.

A nominal charge will be made for attendance, which will cover costs
of the program, lunch on Friday and Saturday, coffee and snacks.

Other participants include:

Kennedy T. K. Gitonga, Research Officer - Economist, Ruiru, Kenya

Stuart McCook, Guelph University, on coffee rust disease

Charlie Kwit, Wittenberg U.

Geoff Watts, Intelligentsia Coffee, on sustainability

Ernest Carman, Café Cristina, Costa Rica, on running a sustainable farm

Ilhem Baghdadli, World Bank

Procter &Gamble rep to be named

Kim Moore, Dir. of Business Development–Coffee and Hot Beverages, TransFair USA

Manoel Correa do Lago, Rio de Janeiro, coffee exporter

Kenneth Davids The Coffee Review

Robert Thurston, Miami U.

Bruce Robbins, Columbia U.

Steven Topik, UC Irvine

Jonathan Morris, U. of Hertfordshire

William Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London

Research Centre for the History of Food & Drink, University of Adelaide

Research Centre for the History of Food & Drink, University of Adelaide, Australia
For its website, see here.

Abstracts of papers (some of them not recent, so the biographical information may not always be accurate).

Several of the papers appear in full in Robert Dare, ed. Food, Power and Community (Wakefield Press), namely those of Andrea Cast, Brett J. Stubbs, and Anna E. Blainey (and can be read via Google)

Anna Blainey, Wowserism Reconsidered: The Ethos of the Total Abstinence and Prohibition Movements in Australia, 1880-1910
Unlike the US anti-alcohol movement, little has been written on the movement in Australia. The one widely read work on this subject, Keith Dunstan'sWowsers, draws largely from the words of the anti-drink movement's opponents who attributed to the teetotallers largely imaginary motives and obscured their true agenda. The so-called "wowsers" themselves, however, did not see drink in terms of the spiritual evils of pleasure as their enemies insisted. Rather, they presented drinking and especially moderate drinking as an unethical act - an act which impacted on and harmed others in various and complex ways. Their anger, however, was directed not at drinking but rather at drink selling which they saw in terms of the infliction of damage on others - comparable to crimes of violence against the person. The anti-drink movement saw alcohol as the expression of the ethos of individualism and the profit motive at the expense of social responsibility and community protection.
Anna Blainey is currently completing a PhD at La Trobe University. She has taught and written teaching texts for History and Women's Studies subjects at Deakin University.

PO Box 257, East Melbourne VIC 3002
hisaeb@lure.latrobe.edu.au

George Bretherton, Food, Drink, Sex and The Body in the Light of Temperance Propaganda in the British Isles, 1830-60
The way temperance advocates developed their notions about what was fit or not to ingest naturally had basic and very profound effects on all sorts of attitudes towards food and drink. Alcohol, which had been regarded as a health and strength giving substance in the pre-temperance days, had to be discredited, which was done mainly in two ways. First by showing that alcohol was unhealthy, an argument put forward in medical treatises--Irish and Scottish physicians were especially important among the first generation of temperance people--and in more homely ways; Joseph Livesy's malt lecture is a good example a talk he gave to many a Mechanics' Institute audience in which he subjected a pint of beer to chemical analysis, revealing that far from deserving the appellation "liquid bread" it consisted entirely of poisons. The relation between food and drink also needed to be rethought. If drinking was healthy and the more you drank the healthier you were then a stout physique and a red face, not atypical results, were signs of health.
Dr. George Bretherton is Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University in New Jersey. He wrote his PhD dissertation on the Irish temperance movement, has published many article and given many conference papers on various aspects of the history of the temperance movement, and is currently working on the role of Theobald Matthew in the temperance movement.

Department of History, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043

Andrea Cast, Drinking Women in Early Modern English Drinking Songs
Drinking alcohol has always been a significant event, imbued with cultural values and meanings. In early modern England everyone drank alcohol every day. What can we learn about early modern English society from looking at the public drinking of women? We do not have access to direct information about alehouse and tavern culture but we do have many of the ballads that were written, sung, sold and displayed there. From these drinking songs historians can glean information that may shed some light on how women participated in what can only be described as the national pastime.
Andrea Cast is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at The University of Adelaide. Her thesis topic is the consumption of alcohol by women in early modern England.

Department of History, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5000
acast@arts.adelaide.edu.au

Valmai Hankel, The Eager Oenographers
Unlike today, most books on wine published in Australia in the nineteenth century were written by winegrowers for winegrowers rather than for consumers. At the same time, in England wine book writers were sometimes wine merchants, whose opinions of Australian wines were often less than flattering. This paper will look at nineteenth-century Australian wine books and the portrayal of Australian wines in English books of the same period. It will draw on the resources of the State Library of South Australia, which has the largest collection of wine literature in the southern hemisphere.
Valmai Hankel is Senior Rare Books Librarian at the State Library of South Australia. She is the wine writer for The Adelaide Review and also writes a column on wine history for the national magazine Winestate. For six years she chaired the Consumer Panel of judges for the Advertiser-Hyatt Regency South Australian Wine of the Year Awards.

State Library of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
valmaih@slsa.sa.gov.au

Annie Harper, Strong Beere and Merry Lads: Drinking Culture and Popular Song in Early Modern England
This paper explores the culture of drinking in Early Modern England through the rich source of popular song. The first part of the paper examines the relationship between drinking and popular balladry. Records from the Jacobean Star Chamber offer evidence about the dissemination and composition of these songs, and indicate that the Alehouse was an important centre for the creation and dissemination of Ballads. Printed urban Broadsides were also heavily flavoured by drinking culture, and Ballad publishers, authors and performers were often associated with urban drinking establishments.
The relationship between drinking and music was symbiotic, as both the audience and the performance space of the Alehouse was reflected in the content of these songs. The second part of this paper looks at this content, examining the two main thematic motifs found in these drinking songs. One emphasises the companionship and community cohesion found in communal drinking ballads; the other represents the problems associated with drink in society, a tradition of social comment through song. In this way I shall explore some of the ambiguities associated with drinking culture at the time.
Annie Harper is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis topic is popular ballads in early modern England.

Department of History, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3052
a.harper@pgrad.unimelb.EDU.AU

Cath Kerry, Chocolate: A History
Chocolate, as the confectionary bar we eat today, is barely 100 years old. Chocolate was used by the Aztecs and Mayans as a mainly ceremonial drink. It came to Europe and vied for popularity with coffee and tea. New technology in the 19th century set out to improve its drinkability, texture and handling qualities, and led eventually to a novelty, eating chocolate that quickly came to symbolise love, nurture, luxury and compulsion. Any interest in chocolate and why it's a part of our lives are obvious.
Cath Kerry is a chef who keeps an academic approach to food for consenting adults in private. Her interests and attitude to chocolate are influenced by her passion for knowing why we live as we do, and by her belief that eating well is one of the last affordable and safe pleasures.

Art Gallery of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide 5000; Fax 08 8232 7266

David K. Round, Louise Sutherland, and Anne Arnold, Going, Going, Gone: Red Wine Auction Prices in Australia
In recent years in Australia, red wine auctions have resulted in prices which have caught the attention of the public and the press, as selected labels have rocketed in price. The market for red wine in Australia is an incredibly diverse one. A given red wine from one geographic area, from the same vintage, from a particular grape variety, can vary enormously in price from other wines with identical characteristics. Why is this? Economists can explain such price discrepancies easily, at least in theory. In the formal language of economics, they depend on the underlying conditions of supply and demand. This paper presents a preliminary investigation into the operation of the red wine auction market in Australia.
We start by looking at the economic characteristics of the auction process, and then move on to describe the essential features of wine auctions in Australia. Next, we identify the major wine labels which have been driving the auction market, and consider briefly the reasons why these particular wines might be seen as so distinct by buyers. We then move on to a statistical description of the price trends for some of the most commonly auctioned red wines, and analyse the quite marked differences which appear. We conclude with some projections of future prices, and assess, from a price perspective, just what it is that makes a great wine.
David K. Round is Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Adelaide, Louise Sutherland is an honours student in the School of Economics, and Anne Arnold is a Lecturer in Economics in the School of Economics. The research for this paper was funded by a grant from the University of Adelaide. Prof. Round's major research interests are in the areas of competition, policy, price fixing, and mergers.

School of Economics, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005
dround@economics.adelaide.edu.au

Brett J. Stubbs, 'A New Drink for Young Australia': The Transition from Ale to Lager Beer in New South Wales, c. 1880 to 1930
One of the most significant twentieth century developments in the Australian brewing industry was the almost complete replacement of the traditional British top-fermented ale style by the Continental bottom-fermented lager style of beer. In the 1880s and 1890s there emerged in Australia a strong demand for lager beer which was met mainly by bottled imports from Germany and the United States of America. There were also several attempts at local manufacture. In New South Wales, at least, these all failed. During the First World War the curtailment of imports left the demand for lager unsatisfied. Perceiving this gap, Tooth & Co., the largest brewer in New South Wales, successfully launched K.B. (Kent Brewery) lager in 1918. This was a crucial turning point in NSW, providing the momentum for lager eventually to supplant the traditional ale style. This trend was paralleled in other Australian states.
Dr. Brett J. Stubbs is a lecturer in the School of Resource Science and Management at Southern Cross University. His publications include "The Revival and Decline of the Independent Breweries in New South Wales, 1946 to 1961," and his current research includes the brewing industry in Australia.

School of Resource Science and Management, Southern Cross University, P.O. Box 157, Lismore NSW 2480; Fax 02 6621 2669
bstubbs@scu.edu.au

Disappearing and shifting historical collections

The apparent closure of the United Kingdom Temperance Alliance library (or at least less access) makes me reflect on disappearing and shifting historical collections. The decline of the temperance movement has resulted in many teetotal societies closing down or shrinking so badly that they can't maintain their old headquarters. The restructuring of the alcohol drink trade in the United Kingdom has brought about the end of trade organizations over a century in age, as well as the end of historic breweries. Sometimes their libraries and manuscript collections have gone to academic libraries or public record offices and sometimes they seem to have disappeared. Who owns copyright is a mystery.

As I work slowly and get diverted to other projects, I am still processing research that I did in the 1960s and 1970s. Unfortunately, for research in private records this means deciphering my hurried scrawl, as copying services weren't available. An exception was the now defunct Livesey-Clegg temperance library; when I expressed interest in a photocopy of something in a rare periodical, I was advised to remove it from the library and carry it down the street to a commercial copy service.

Of course, there is sadness about what has been pulped or has disintegrated or otherwise lost. I tended to locate important collections in the UK on the eve of returning to the USA. For instance, I found at an organization of London publicans a continuous series from the 1830s of fat volumes containing every multi-copy item distributed by the society, everything from banquet menus to circular letters, low-grade ore but invaluable for a researcher with sufficient time. The next time that I could visit the organization it had lost its long-term, low-rent lease and so had moved to new and much smaller quarters. The volumes that once had been prominent in the library had not survived the move.

New editor for alcohol and drugs history series

The alcohol and drugs history series, published by Northern Illinois University Press, has a new editor. The former series editor, Melody Herr, has moved to the University of Michigan Press. As a result the director of the NIU Press, J. Alex Schwartz, will handle the drugs and alcohol history series. He can be reached by email at aschwartz@niu.edu.

Call for book reviewers (Social History of Alcohol and Drugs)

Anyone interested in reviewing publications on the history of alcohol and drugs please contact the new Reviews Editor of SHAD, Dr Jonathan Reinarz. We particularly wish to identify graduate students who are interested in reviewing for the journal.

Dr Jonathan Reinarz
Centre for the History of Medicine
University of Birmingham (UK)
Email: j.reinarz@bham.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com/
alcohol_and_drugs_history/SHADV20N2.html

International workshop on alcohol in the Atlantic world

The international workshop on alcohol in the Atlantic world (historical and contemporary perspectives) will be held 24-27 October 2007, at York University, Toronto, Canada. Organizers: José C. Curto and David V. Trotman. For details, see here. For the preliminary program, see here. The expected papers include those at three plenary sessions, respectively by Charles Ambler, John E. Philips, and Steve Stein.

Charles Ambler, Department of History, University of Texas at El Paso, “Alcohol and the ‘Native Peoples’ of the Atlantic World”

John E. Philips, International Society, College of Humanities, Hirosaki University, "Alcohol
Controls and the Scramble for Africa"

Steve Stein, Department of History, University of Miami, "Argentina's Wine Revolution:
1990-2007"

New book review editor for Social History of Alcohol and Drugs

The new book review editor for the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs is Jonathan Reinarz, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. His email address is: j.reinarz@bham.ac.uk. He succeeds Elaine Parsons in this office. Those interested in having their work reviewed or contributing a book review should email Dr. Reinarz.

Alcohol in the Atlantic World--Workshop (preliminary program)

from J.C. Curto

The preliminary program, registration form, and other details
for the International Workshop - Alcohol in the
Atlantic World: Historical and Contemporary
Perspectives, 24-27 October, 2007, York University, Toronto,
Ontario, are now accessible through the following URL:
http://www.yorku.ca/tubman/Events/Alcohol/index.html

The preliminary program is also available below.

International Workshop

Alcohol in the Atlantic World:
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

24-27 October, 2007
York University
Toronto, Ontario


Organizers: José C. Curto and David V. Trotman


Preliminary Program


Wednesday, October 24, 2007: Alcohol in the Atlantic World


4:00 – 5:00: REGISTRATION


5:10 - 5:30: Welcome Remarks


5:30 - 8:00: Reception/Dinner



Thursday, October 25: Alcohol in the Atlantic World

10:00 –12:00 Panel I: The Globalization of Atlantic Alcohol
Chair: Nick Rogers, Department of History, York University

Catherine Ferland, Centre interuniversitaire d'études québécoises, Université
Laval, “Fenouillette, « kill-devil » et autres eaux ardentes: la circulation de l'eau-
de-vie dans l'Atlantique Nord aux XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles”

João Azevedo Fernandes, Department of History, Universidade Federal da
Paraíba, “An Atlantic Drunkenness: Alcohol and Ethnic Relations in Dutch
Brazil (1630-1654)”

Eric F Gollannek, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of
Delaware, “Circumnavigating the punch bowl: sociable drinking and the
consumption of empire in the Atlantic world”

Jonathan Roberts, Department of History, Hartwick College, “Pan-Africanism
through the Beer Glass: Michael Power and the Guinness Masculinity”

Discussant: Anthony Maingot, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Florida International
University (Emeritus)


12:15 –1:45: Lunch Break


2:00 – 4:00 Panel II: The Production of Alcohol in the Atlantic World
Chair: Jordan Goodman, Wellcome Trust

Nadine Hunt, Ph D Candidate, Department of History, York University,
“Keeping rum local: a glimpse at the Caribbean rum industry in the eighteenth-
century”

Rafael Chambouleyron, Departamento de História, Universidade Federal do
Pará, “The ‘government of the sertões’: Cane Brandy, sugar and Indians in
colonial Amazonia”

Carmen Alveal, Ph D Candidate, Department of History, Johns Hopkins
University, “Indians and Mestiços in the production of aguardente in the
Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro during the late 18th century”

Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry, Department of History, Shippensburg University,
and Chima J. Korieh, Department of History, Rowan University, “'Vile and
Poisonous Liquids': British Colonial Policy and Illicit Gin Control in West
Africa”

Discussant: Franklin Knight, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University


4:15 –5:30 PLENARY I:
Charles Ambler, Department of History, University of Texas at El Paso, “Alcohol and the ‘Native
Peoples’ of the Atlantic World”



Friday, October 26: Alcohol in the Atlantic World

10:00 –12:00 Panel III: The Distribution of Alcohol in the Atlantic World
Chair: Anthony Maingot, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Florida International
University (Emeritus)

Timothy R. Romans, Department of History, United States Air Force Academy,
“Gender, Social Subversion, and Negotiation: New Netherland's Contraband
Trade in Alcohol During the 1650's”

Simon Heap, Plan International, UK, “Situating Nigeria’s Liquor Trade in the
Atlantic World”

Uttam Bajwa, Ph D Candidate, Department of History, Johns Hopkins
University, “Atlantic Connections in the Mendozan Wine Industry”

Marni Davis, Department of History, Emory University, “From Tavern to
Saloon: Jewish Alcohol Entrepreneurs in the Pale of Settlement and the United
States”

Discussant: Craig Heron, Department of History, York University


12:15 –1:45: Lunch Break


2:00 – 4:00 Panel IV: The Consumption of Alcohol in the Atlantic World
Chair: Franklin Knight, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University

Ty M. Reese, Department of History, University of North Dakota, “‘Eating’
Rum: Alcohol, Change and Cross-Cultural Interaction at Cape Coast, 1750-
1807”

Frederick H. Smith, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary,
"Alcoholic Marronage: Slave Drinking and Planter Ambivalence in the British
Caribbean"

Larry Hudson, Department of History, University of Rochester, ”Alcohol: A
Problematic Tool of Slave Management (US South)”

Paulo Miguel Rodrigues, Departamento de História, Universidade da Madeira,
“A questão da aguardente na Ilha da Madeira: produção, comércio e consumo
num entreposto atlântico (1801-1834)”

Discussant: Paul Lovejoy, Department of History, York University


4:15 –5:30 PLENARY II:
John E. Philips, International Society, College of Humanities, Hirosaki University, "Alcohol
Controls and the Scramble for Africa"





Saturday, October 27: Alcohol in the Atlantic World

9:30 –12:00 Panel V: Temperance in the Atlantic World
Chair: Craig Heron, Department of History, York University

Jessica Warner, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, “Christian
Perfection in Transatlantic Perspective: Why Temperance Flourished in America
and Languished in Britain”

Teresa Cristina de Novaes Marques, Departamento de História, Universidade de
Brasília, “Cerveja e aguardente sob o foco da temperança no Brasil, no inicio do
século XX”

Lisa Dorr, Department of History, University of Alabama, “‘Uncle Sam’s Booze
Cops in the West Indies’: Smuggling and Cuban-American Relations during
Prohibition”

Deborah Neill, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York
University, “The International Anti-Alcohol Movement and the Atlantic World,
1885-1930”


Discussant: Jordan Goodman, Wellcome Trust


12:15 –1:45: Lunch Break


2:00 – 4:00 Panel VI: Alcohol and Unruly Behaviour in the Atlantic World
Chair: Paul Lovejoy, Department of History, York University

Virginia Pineau, Ph D Candidate, Department of Archaeology, Universidad de
Buenos Aires, “Alcoholic Beverages in the Conquest of Argentinian Territory
(XIXth Century)”

Adam Criblez, Ph D Candidate, Department of History, Purdue University, “Beer
Gardens and a Bloody Fourth: Drinking and Ethnic Violence in Mid-Nineteenth
Century Columbus, Ohio”

Michele A. Johnson and Brian L. Moore, Department of History, York
University and Departments of History and Africana & Latin American Studies,
Colgate University, “Drunk and Disorderly”: Alcoholism and the Search for
‘Morality’ in Jamaica, 1865-1920”

David Carey, Department of History, University of Southern Maine, “Distilling
Perceptions of Crime: Mayan Moonshiners, Unruly Drunks, and the State in
Guatemala, 1900-1944”

Discussant: Nick Rogers, Department of History, York University


4:15 –5:30 PLENARY III:
Steve Stein, Department of History, University of Miami, "Argentina's Wine Revolution:
1990-2007"

Preliminary program, Global Approaches, 4th international alcohol and drug history conference, University of Guelph, August 10-12, 2007

4th International Conference on the History of Drugs and Alcohol, University of Guelph, Canada

Preliminary Program, August 10-12, 2007

THURSDAY, AUGUST 9

We invite you to join us for drinks at the Shakespeare Arms anytime after 8pm. 35 Harvard Road

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10

9.00-10.30

Alcohol and Social Change

‘Those That Are Cooking the Gins’: The Distillation of Ogogoro in Nigeria.

Simon David Howard Heap, Plan International, UK

Liberté, Egalité, and Viticulture During the French Revolution.

Noelle Plack, Newman College, UK

Regulations and Economic Policy in Haarlem’s 15th Century Brewing Industry

Richard John Yntema, Otterbein College, US

Medical Discourses

The Drug Policy of the Third Reich

Jonathan Lewy, Hebrew University, Israel

Magnus Hirschfeld, Alcohologist

Michele Morales, University of Michigan, US

Heredity and the Construction of Alcoholism and Addiction

Stephen Snelders, Toine Pieters, Charles Kaplan, VU-University Medical Center, Netherlands

Medicalization of Miraa: Social Control in Kenya via Commodity Regulation
Beverly Smith, West Virginia University, US

11.00-12.30

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Zheng Yangwen, University of Manchester

12.30-1.30: LUNCH

1.30-3.00

Images and Cultures of Consumption

Chair: Noelle Plack, Newman College, UK

Bottles, Madeira, and the Wine Trade: A Study of Maryland Elites Purchase, Consumption, Sale and Storage of Fortified Wines.

Mara Katkins, Temple University, US

Fleshing Out Current Nutrition With History: A Comparative Analysis of Beer’s Changing Uses Among the Karimojong.

Kelsey Dawn Needham, Binghamton University, US

Pictures of Potatory Pleasures: Nineteenth Century France.

Elisabeth Lee Vines, Albany College of Pharmacy, US

Vinum Brittanicum: Alcohol and the Invention of Englishness 1550-1850

James Quan Nicholls, Bath Spa University, UK

Alcohol and Drug History and Medical History: A Roundtable

Patricia Barton, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Virginia Berridge, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London

David Courtwright, University of North Florida, US

Stuart McCook, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON

3.30-5.00

Changing Approaches to Treatment

Chair: Yvan Prkachin

Treating Disease and Saving Souls: A case study in early medical treatment for alcoholism in a charitable context.
Caroline Clark, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Australia

‘Just Say Know’: Criminalising LSD and the Politics of Psychedelic Expertise.

Erika Dyck, University of Alberta, Canada

‘In From the Cold’? The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Treatment of Heroin Addiction in Britain.

Alex Mold, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Expectant Mothers and Addicts: Twilight Sleep in Obstetrics and Drug Withdrawal

Mark Smith, University of Texas at Austin, US

Business and Prohibition

The Canadian Brewing Industry and the Royal Commission on Liquor Traffic, 1892-1895.

Matthew J. Bellamy, Carleton University, Canada

The Business Press and Prohibition in the United States.

Ranjit S. Dighe, State University of New York at Oswego, US

The Origins of Marijuana Prohibition in Australia.

John Jiggens, Independent Scholar, Australia

Alcohol Regulation in Canada

Liberty, Morality and the Right to Drink: Liquor Licensing, Trade Organization and Political Patronage in Late Nineteenth Century Canada.

Shawn Day, McMaster University, Canada

Noble Little Island or Dry Despotism? Prohibition on Prince Edward Island, 1901-48.

Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick, Canada

DINNER 7pm: Dinner will be held at the Bullring, University of Guelph

SATURDAY, AUGUST 11

9.00-10.30

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Robin Room, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Australia

11.00-12.30

Class, Race, and Gender

“"Juvenile Junkies": Media Portrayals of Toronto's Youth, 1945-1960”

Holly Karibo, University of Toronto, Toronto

The Zoot Suit Riots: A Lethal Blend of Juvenile Delinquency, Alcohol, Marijuana, and Racism in August 1942.

Lisa L. Ossian, Des Moines Area Community College, US.

“Chinks Pay Heavily for ‘Hitting Pipe”’: The Perception and Enforcement of Canada’s New Drug Laws in Rural British Columbia, 1908-1930

Yvan Prkachin, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

"In Vino Venus? La consommation féminine de produits dopants en France et au Canada, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles"

Catherine Ferland, Université Laval

Trading Alcohol and Drugs

“The Drug Empire: The Control of Alcohol and Drugs in Africa Since the Late Nineteenth Century

Charles Ambler, University of Texas at El Paso

Liquor Trade and Its Socio-Cultural Impact on Southern Nigeria, 1880-1950.

Adebayo A. Lawal, University of Lagos, Nigeria

The Parsis of India and the Opium Trade in China.

Jesse Palsetia, University of Guelph, Canada

‘Smoke Screen’: The Impact of International Pressure on Imperial Japanese Drug Policy, 1895-1941

James Sedgwick, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada

12.30-1.30: LUNCH

1:30-3.00

State Power, People Power: Comparative Exploration of Efforts to Eradicate Heroin/Opium in Mexico, Thailand and the Philippines.

Chair: William O. Walker, III, University of Toronto, Canada

Prohibiting Opium in the Philippines and United States: Creation of an Interventionist State.

Anne L. Foster, Indiana State University, US

Opium, Power, People: Anthropological Understandings of a Drug Interdiction Project in Thailand.

Kathleen A. Gillogly, Columbia College Chicago / Chicago State University, US

A Quantum Leap in Destruction: Aerial Herbicides, Technology, and U.S.-Mexican.

Daniel Weimer, Wheeling Jesuit University, US

Temperance Movements Across Times and Places

Chair: Scott C. Martin, Bowling Green State University

‘To Flood Our Fields of Literature’: The British Women’s Temperance Association and the Language of Reform.

Cynthia Belaskie, York University, Canada

‘Bacchus had Forc’d Open Hell’s Cabbins’: English Moralists’ Ideas of Alcohol Intoxication, 1660-1830.

David Clemis, University of Alberta, Canada

Baby You Can Drive My Car: The United States Brewing Industry and the Neo-Temperance Movement, 1970-1991.

Amy Mittelman, Holyoke Medical Center / Excel, Massachusetts, US

3.30-5.00

Drugs and Morality

Genetic Engineering, Coca Java, the Mystery of the Kew Plant

Steven B. Karch, Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (London)

Manufacturing Fear: LSD Use and Glue Sniffing in Ontario in the Sixties.

Marcel Martel, York University, Canada

Anti-Opium Reform in Late Nineteenth Century China and the United States: Shared Assumptions and Shared Anxieties.
Lars Seiler, Independent Scholar, US

Melodrama and Addiction: The Origins of a Cinematic Notion.

Robert P. Stephens, Virginia Tech, US

Drugs, Alcohol and Modernization

New For Old: The Changing Markets for Medicines and Intoxicants in Colonial South Asia After the Great War.

Patricia Barton, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Alcool et Société: Entre vertu, vice, et tabou.

Omar Geuye, L’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal

“Old Pleasures, New Pleasures”: Opium and the Modernization of Iran.

Rami Regavim, University of Pennsylvania, US

The Opium Industry in Burma, 1826-1948.

Ashley Wright, Cambridge, UK

DINNER 7pm: At the Woolwich Arms, 176 Woolwich St. (downtown Guelph)

SUNDAY AUGUST 12

9.00-10.30

Drug Consumption and Drug Policy in Post-WW II America

How to Sell Drug Policy: Nixon’s Drug War as Public Relations.

David T. Courtwright, University of North Florida, US

Heroin and the Postwar American City.

Eric Schneider, University of Pennsylvania, US

Nationalism, Modernization and Narcotic Control

Fighting over subsidies and addicts: The ‘tribal war’ in Amsterdam addiction treatment, 1970-1985

Gemma Blok, History Department, University of Amsterdam,

Max Weber, the Protestant Ethic, and the Origins of the Global Drug Prohibition Regime.

Tilmann Holzer, University of Mannheim, Germany

Opium vs. The People: Nationalism and the Birth of Narcotics Control

Howard Padwa, University of California at Los Angeles, US

Narrative on Methamphetamine Use in Japan After WWII: Transformed.

Sato Akihiko, Kumamoto University, Japan

11:00-12:30

Science, Temperance, and Civic Society on the Periphery

The Still Small Voice of Science” Temperance Activists, Drinkers, and Doctors, in the Battle for an Inebriates’ Asylum in Toronto, 1862-1889.

Renée Lafferty, Brock University, Canada

Community-Based Action, Public Drinking, and Liquor Regulation in Ontario.

Dan Malleck, Brock University, Canada

Science, Temperance and the Improvement of Ireland.

E. Neswald, Brock University, Canada

Print and Advertising

Listening to Miltown.

David Herzberg, State University of New York at Buffalo, US

Imaging Alcohol in Manchukuo.

Norman Smith, University of Guelph, Canada

Decadence Through Moderation: Transforming Drinking Practices in Post-War Montreal.

Lisa Sumner, McGill University; Anouk Bélanger, Université du Québec à Montréal

Special issue on alcohol and drugs in the history of Latin America

The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal, is planning a special issue on alcohol and drugs in the history of Latin America. We encourage paper submissions in any aspect of this broad theme. Deadline for submissions will be July 31, 2007.

Dan Malleck, PhD
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Editor-in-chief, Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal
dan.malleck@BROCKU.CA
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Transnational Sobriety: Exporting American Ideas about Alcohol and Alcoholism (conference panel)

Culture, Alcohol & Society Quarterly: Newsletter of Kirk/CAAS Collections at Brown, 3/1 (Oct./Nov./Dec. 2006): 2-6, reports details for a panel at the American Studies Association, Philadelphia, October 2007. It is "Transnational Sobriety: Exporting American Ideas about Alcohol and Alcoholism," with as chair Jared Lobdell (editor, CA & SQ), panelists Jason S. Lantzer (Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis), Trysh Travis (Center of Women's Studies and Gender Research, University of Florida), Brian Eugenio Herrera (Department of Theatre and Dance, University of New Mexico), comment by Mark Lender (Kean College of New Jersey).

There are detailed abstracts of the three papers.

Jason S. Lantzer, "Drying up the World: America's Dry Crusade, Wilsonian Idealism, and the Transnational Context"

Trysh Travis, "The Globalization of 12-Step Recovery: Exporting 'The Language of the Heart'"

Brian Eugenio Herrera, "Performative Autobiography and Transnational Sobriety in Ignacio Solares' Delerium Tremens"

Culture, Alcohol & Society Quarterly

Culture, Alcohol & Society Quarterly: Newsletter of Kirk/CAAS Collections at Brown, vol. 2, no. 8 (July/August/Septpember 2006, recently has appeared. It is the eighth new issue since Jared Lobdell revived the newsletter in October 2004.

Drinking and temperance in American genre painting (dissertation)

Nora C. Kilbane, "A tug from the jug: Drinking and temperance in American genre painting, 1830--1860" (Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006). Among the artists that she considers are William Sidney Mount, George Caleb Bingham, and Francis Edmonds.

Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science at UC, Davis

The Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science at the University of California, Davis, should be completed in 2008.

Building the Mondavi Institute was made possible by a $25 million donation from Robert and Margit Mondavi, as well as the Anheuser-Busch Foundation and Ronald Miller and Diane Disney Miller. The UC, Davis viticulture and enology department has an underground wine cellar with a 60,000 bottle capacity. The oldest wine in the cellar dates from 1929. Although not filled, the wine cellar contains the equivalent of 26,000 research projects. California is a major wine producer, and of the 60% of Americans who consume alcoholic beverages, wine is the preferred drink for 30%. Although UC, Davis, produces wine for teaching and research purposes, it cannot be sold. For more, see here.

Proscribed Purchases in USA (call for papers)

Call For Papers: Proscribed Purchases: Banned, Restricted and Subversive
Consumption in United States History
2008 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting
New York, New York
March 28-31, 2008

I am looking for participants to form a panel for the 2008 OAH
Annual Meeting in New York. The tentative title of the panel is
“Proscribed Purchases: Banned, Restricted and Subversive Consumption in
the United States.”

In recent decades U.S. historians of virtually every specialization
have created significant works of scholarship dealing with themes of
“deviance,” cultural subversion and transgression. Despite their inherent
commonalities, many of these works tend to address disparate topics and
employ different methodologies, and their audience or influence is often
limited to a distinct subfield within the larger field of United States
history.
This panel seeks to address topics of “deviance” or transgression in
the United States across lines of specialization and field by focusing on
these themes’ relationship to consumption and commercial market forces.
More specifically, I am seeking papers that deal with commercial
activities and consumer goods that are banned or heavily restricted by
law. Panelists will make the market-, commercial- or consumer-oriented
aspects of their topic a main focus of their papers. Although it is
important that the focus of papers be retrospective, submissions from all
disciplines, and not just history, are invited.
My own work deals with youth and marijuana culture in the 1970s.
A selection of possible paper topics includes, but is not limited to, the
following:
--Pornography
--Alcohol and tobacco
--Embargoed trade or goods
--Prostitution
--Any type of black market
--Bootleg or counterfeit goods
--Sites of consumption that were at one time or another prohibited or
heavily restricted: speakeasies, gay bars, etc.
--Banned publications and visual media.
Any potential panelist should indicate their interest by sending
an email to Joshua Davis (at jcdavis@email.unc.edu) as soon as possible,
and also submit an abstract of 250 words or less along with a CV no later
than January 1, 2007.

Joshua C. Davis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Political uses of alcohol in Latin America (conference session)

The Alcohol and Drugs History Society will sponsor a session, "Political Uses of Alcohol: The State and the Lower Classes in Colonial and Modern Latin America," in conjunction with the American Historical Association, Atlanta, Saturday, 6 January 2007, 9-11 am.  Douglas Yarrington will chair and session and Scott Martin will provide the comment.  There will be four papers.  (Apology for lack of Spanish accent marks.)

Sharon Bailey Glasco, "Elites, Plebeians, Drinking, and Space: Alcohol and Ideas about Urban Space in Late Colonial Mexico City"

Marcos Fernandez Labbe, "Clientelismo, Taxes, and Proletarian Opposition: The Political Uses of Chile's Taverns, 1870-1930"

Gretchen Pierce, "'Se prohibe la cerveza y en cambio se tolera la menta de vino': Popular Temperance Leagues, Corruption, and State-Building in Sonora, Mexico, 1929-40"

Joes Orozco, "Disgust and Creation of a Nationalist Tequila Discourse in Pre-Revolutionary Mexico"

Among other AHA sessions at Atlanta relevant to the ADHS is a joint session with the Labor and Working-Class History Association, "Labor, Migration, and Global Trade, Part !: Coca-Cola in Guatemala, Colombia, and India.

College drinking today

The Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2006, looks at college drinking with nearby Miami University (Ohio) as a case study. For more, see here.

Malleck, Fahey receive ADHS awards

Ian R. Tyrrell, the outgoing president of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, has announced two awards which recognize service to the field of drugs and alcohol historical studies.

Dan Malleck (Brock University) is editor in chief of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal. In addition, he organized an international conference on drugs and alcohol history held in 2004.  Extending its scope beyond alcohol, this conference foreshadowed the reorganization of the Alcohol and Temperance History Group as the Alcohol and Drugs History Society.

David Fahey (Miami University) served the old ATHG as president, newsletter editor, and listserv group moderator.  For more than twenty years he was a member of the ATHG and ADHS executive councils.  He edited the first two volumes of SHAD.

Rorabaugh succeeds Tyrrell as ADHS president

Effective on 1 July 2006, W.J. Rorabaugh (University of Washington) becomes president of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. He succeeds Ian R. Tyrrell (University of New South Wales) who was the first ADHS president and last president of the old Alcohol and Temperance History Group. A warm welcome to Bill and a warm thank you to Ian.

Alcohol and Temperance Historiography (article)

Tyrrell, Ian. “Tasks and Achievements of Alcohol and Temperance Historiography.” In Jack Blocker and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, eds. The Changing Face of Drink: Substance, Imagery, and Behaviour (Ottawa, Canada: Social History, Inc., 1997), 381-401. [Abstract: “For too long the literature in the history of alcohol has been dominated by American issues arising primarily from the history of prohibition. While impressive monographs on many aspects of the social history of alcohol for a number of key countries have appeared, the new work remains too narrow and unintegrated. Methodologically the history of the alcohol question is best studied comparatively and internationally - that is, both between nations and across national units in what the author refers to as “transnational history”. Such an approach would not supersede conventional comparisons between national experiences, but provide a new and richer context for their interpretation” (381).]

Chocolate anthopologist in news

In Jason DeParle's report on Douglas Feith's reception at Georgetown University, Susan Terrio, "who has appointments in anthropology and French and whose résumé lists several writings about French chocolate makers," is singled out for both the civility of her protest and her discipline's distance from that "bureaucratic culture" of the Pentagon which would, presumably, account for her opposition to Feith's two-year appointment. And, perhaps, Terrio's resume has been quoted for comic effect. Story here.

historian David W. Gutzke interviewed (article)

A Missouri newspaper, the News-Leader, 7 May 06, published a lengthy illustrated interview with David W. Gutzke, who has published two monographs, a bibliographical volume, and many articles on the history of alcohol in Britain.   Currently he is writing a book on the various English "cultures of drinking," including advertisements and gender roles.   Gutzke served as president of the Alcohol and Temperance History Group, now the Alcohol and Drugs History Society.  The interview can be found online here.

AHA interview with Ian R. Tyrrell (article)

Ian R . Tyrrell, the last president of the Alcohol & Temperance History  Group and the first president of the Alcohol & Drugs History Society, was inteviewed by Robert B. Townsend (via email) for the American Historical Association's newsletter (Perspectives, 44/5, May 2006, pp. 23-26, 36).  Although the interview is unrelated to the ADHS, members of the organization may want to read it online. Link here.

 

 

World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party

Sports Illustrated reports that "University of Georgia President Michael Adams objects to the phrase 'World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party' to describe the annual Georgia-Florida football game." Adams is attempting "to curb on-campus alcohol abuse and change UGA's image as a party school." Story here.

Culture, Alcohol & Society Quarterly (newsletter)

Here's a link to a PDF archive of the CA&SQ newsletter archive from Kirk Collection scholars at the University of Brown. There's at least one more recent newsletter, Vol. II, No. 5, which includes notes from Etta Madden, James Swan Tuite, Dick B., and Jared Lobdell. "Wahingtonian Notes and Queries, No. 8" features an extract from T.S. Arthur's Six Nights with the Washingtonians.

New Directions for the Study of Drug Use

Daniel Bradburd, William Jankowiak, “Drugs in Work and Trade: New Directions for the Study of Drug Use.” Drugs, labor, and colonial expansion. Ed. William Jankowiak and Daniel Bradburd. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003, pp. 177 - 186.

Alcohol and Drugs in World History

This capstone course was taught at Miami University (Ohio) in the Fall 2005 term,

Alcohol and drugs in world history, especially in the modern period (1500s to the present). Some drugs have been illegal at many times and in many places (for instance, opium, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, synthetic drugs such as meth), others usually legal but regulated (for instance, tobacco and alcohol), others available to anybody (coffee, tea, chocolate/cocoa, and caffeine in soft drinks). Some drugs (such as qat and kava) are limited geographically in their appeal, but most have been globalized in modern times. The story of alcohol and drugs has many dimensions: for instance, popular culture, interaction with law, medicine, and religion, commerce and technology, gender, youth, and respectability.

Undercover police to crash Colby College parties

Doug Harville of the Morning Sentinel reports that Waterville police will go undercover to fight underage drinking at Colby College (Maine) parties.

Research on Food and Drink

There are two university-based research programs on the history of food and drink that bear similar names. The older one is the Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink, University of Adelaide, South Australia [director, A. Lynn Martin]. The newer one is the Research Institute for the Culture and History of Food and Drink, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [director, Rod Phillips].

Oldenburg reflection

Oldenburg, Ray. “The Barroom Beckons.” The Social History of Alcohol Review 38-39 (1999), 10-16. [Autobiographical reflections on Oldenburg’s life and scholarship.]

Psychedelic Mindview (course)

For Tuesday's Northern Star, an online paper for the Northern Illinois University community, Genevieve Diesing reports that there may be a new approach to psychedelics emerging, one that regards them in a "more medical, therapeutic sense." The article essentially reviews a long-running course taught by NIU’s Thomas Roberts, Ph.D., called "Psychedelic Mindview" (EPS 492).

ADHS at the AHA in January 2006

The American Historical Association will hold its annual meeting between 5-8 January 2006 in Philadelphia. While the deadline for submitting to the AHA has passed, the Alcohol and Drugs History Society is still accepting paper and panel proposals. If anyone would wish to organize a panel or present a paper covering any topic relating to alcohol, drugs, use and regulation, temperance movements, and other related matters, please contact W. Scott Haine (shaine@aol.com). Please include an abstract and a CV. The deadline for submissions is 31 May, but you are encouraged to try to get your proposals in as soon as possible for maximum consideration as panels can fill up fast. This year the ADHS will try to have 3 panels, especially since a new time slot (Thursday afternoon) has been opened up by the AHA.

Young women who consume two or three alcoholic drinks a week are much more fun to do research on than women who do not consume alcohol

According to SatireWire, a recent study comes to this conclusion.

The report, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, studied drinking patterns and blood pressure among 70,000 nurses between the ages of 25 and 42.

Dr. Eric Shinauer, who headed the study for Harvard's School of Public Health, put the findings in perspective. "Alcohol, 70,000 nurses, and us," he said. "Is that cool or what?"

Shinauer and his colleagues — Dr. Andrew Sporata and Dr. Chandra Palava — conceded their initial grant was to study salt consumption. However, upon reflection, the trio decided that adjusting the parameters would dramatically heighten their interest in the research.

Explained Palava: "What it came down to was, did we want to say, 'Here young lady, have some salt and let's see what happens,' or, 'Here young lady, have a drink and let's see what happens.'"

"We're scientists, but we're not dead," he added.

Spode Reflection Essay in SHAD Volume 18

The latest in our long-running series in which prominent scholars sketch an autobiography of their research interests, Hasso Spode's essay, "What Does Alcohol History Mean and To What End Do We Study It?: A Plea for SpeciRalism," appears on pages 16 through 34 of SHAD volume 18 (2003).

Regarding the unusual word in his title, Spode writes:

A generalist is someone who knows less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything, while a specialist is someone who knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. I have no idea who coined that witticism but it points exactly to the dilemma of knowledge production. (25-26)

He further writes:

Every scholar is free to position herself or himself on the scale of abstraction ranging from nothing to nothing, let's say between Alcohol throughout the Ages and The Marital Status of the Icelandic Wine Importers, 1861-1863. If carried out thoroughly, almost every position has a right to exist (and during an academic life the preferred level often changes). Generally, I try my luck somewhere in the middle. Both historian and sociologist, I am a born "speciRalist" who strives to combine new empirical findings with a critical consolidation of the immeasurable treasure of knowledge gathered on the shelves. To this job many are called but few are chosen, but I want to encourage brave scholars to join the speciRalist group. (26)

Dr. Spode's essay also features anecdotes about undertaking research in Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The full essay may be found here, in our permanent archives.

Conferences, 1984-2003

Several major conferences have been in held in recent decades related to the interests of ADHS.  In 1984 (Berkeley, California) and 1993 (London, Ontario) there were conferences on the social history of alcohol.  In 2003 (Glasgow, Scotland) there was a conference on drugs and empire.  In 2004 (London, Ontario) there was a conference on drugs and alcohol in history. 

In 1987 the University of Florida sponsored a small conference or seminar on alcohol history.  In addition the ADHS (or its predecessor the ATHG) frequently has organized sessions at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.

Social History/Histoire Sociale (1994) Abstracts

Abstracts of articles on the social history of alcohol, published in Social History/Histoire Sociale, Nov. 1994, are available here.

Book Series on the History of Alcohol and Drugs

Drugs and Alcohol: Contested Histories

Northern Illinois University Press has announced a new series on the history of alcohol and drugs. Broadly conceived in chronological and geographical scope, and under the direction of four internationally renowned scholars, this series will investigate cultural, legal, economic, and medical histories of alcohol, drugs, and other substances such as coffee and tobacco. We envision books that offer both valuable perspectives on timely issues and enjoyable reading for a wide audience.

Series Advisory Board
David Courtwright, University of North Florida
David Fahey, Miami University (Ohio)
David Gutzke, Southwest Missouri State University
James Mills, University of Strathclyde

To submit a manuscript or proposal for consideration, please send a query to Melody Herr, Acquisitions Editor, Northern Illinois University Press, 310 N. Fifth Street, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA

mherr@niu.edu

Course Syllabi

May I suggest that those of you who teach courses on the history of alcohol, the history of drugs, temperance history and the like post their syllabi at this website?  I also am interested in evaluation of the books that you assign to students.  Thank you.

Addiction studies at John Jay

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow describes the "budding academic field" of addiction studies as it's thriving at CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice for the Village Voice. Link.