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Mittelman's Brewing Battles (book review)

Howard R. Stanger reviews Amy Mittelman, Brewing Battles: A History of American Beer, in Business History Review 83/2 (Summer 2009): 381-384.

Posted by David Fahey on November 27, 2009 at 08:48 PM in Beer, Book Reviews, Brewing , United States | Permalink

Temperance and the shaping of American culture (book reviews)

Ryan Mcilhenny, books reviews of Scott Martin, Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-Class Ideology, 1800-1860 and Izumi Ishii, Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation in Journal of the Early Republic 29 (Spring, 2009):160-164.  McIlhenny is an assistant professor of history at Providence Christian College (Ontario, California).

Posted by David Fahey on November 24, 2009 at 06:29 PM in Book Reviews, Temperance, United States | Permalink

Heroin treatment in Britain (book review)

Klaus Weinhauer reviewed Alex Mold, Heroin: The Treatment of Addiction in Twentieth-Century Britain, in Twentieth Century British History 20 (2009): 567-569.

Posted by David Fahey on November 23, 2009 at 07:58 AM in Addiction, Book Reviews, Britain, Heroin | Permalink

Pashley's History of Beer in Canada (book review)

For Beppi Crosariol's review of Nicholas Pashley, Cheers! An intemperate History of Beer in Canada (HarperCollins Canada, 2009), see here.

Posted by David Fahey on November 18, 2009 at 05:32 PM in Beer, Book Reviews, Canada | Permalink

Gutzke on Jennings's book on English pubs (book review)

David W. Gutzke, book review of Paul Jennings, The Local: A History of the English Pub, in English Historical Review 134 (2009): 1522-1523.

Posted by David Fahey on November 17, 2009 at 01:41 PM in Book Reviews, Britain, Drinking Spaces | Permalink

Voluntary associations and moral reform in England (book review)

Martin Gorsky reviews M.J.D. Roberts, Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787-1886, here.

Posted by David Fahey on November 8, 2009 at 09:07 AM in Book Reviews, Britain, Temperance | Permalink

King of vodka (book review)

Diana Raabe reviews Linda Himmelstein, The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire here.

Posted by David Fahey on October 30, 2009 at 09:29 PM in Book Reviews, Russia, Vodka | Permalink

Heroin and the American city (book review)

Joseph Spillane, book review of Eric C. Schneider, Smack: Heroin and the American City, in Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 23/2 (Spring 2009): 187-189.

Posted by David Fahey on October 11, 2009 at 08:54 PM in Book Reviews, Heroin, United States | Permalink

Dutch gin in West Africa (book review)

Insa Nolte, book review of Dmitri van den Bersselaar, The King of Drinks: Schapps Gin from Modernity to Tradition, in Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 23/2 (Spring 2009): 201-203.

Posted by David Fahey on August 25, 2009 at 06:21 PM in Africa, Book Reviews, Gin, Netherlands | Permalink

Russian vodka (book review)

In the Wall Street Journal, Joseph Tartakovsky reviews Linda Himelstein, The King of Vodka, a popular account of Pyotr Smirnov and of the history of Russian vodka.  For more, see here.

Posted by David Fahey on May 31, 2009 at 04:48 PM in Book Reviews, Russia, Vodka | Permalink