Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Plato, drug culture, and identity in ancient Athens (book)

Michael Rinella, Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens (Lexington Books, forthcoming).  A political scientist, Dr. Rinella formerly was an editor at the State University of New York Press.

Reprints for history of drink problem and temperance movement (books)

BiblioLife offers a large number of cheap reprints of books helpful for the history of the Anglo-American drink problem and the temperance movement.  They are available directly and from booksellers such as Amazon.  Many titles were released in 2009.

Hanging out at Starbucks (book)

Bryant Simon, Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (University of California Press, 2009).  The Temple University professor visited more than 400 Starbucks cafes.

Alcohol surveillance and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (book)

Gary Genosko and Scott Thompson, Punched Drunk: Alcohol, Surveillance and the LCBO 1927–1975 (Fernwood Publishing, 2009).

 

From the publisher:

In this critical study of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Scott Thompson and Gary Genosko expose the stakes and consequences of the enormous bureaucracy behind the administrative surveillance of alcohol consumption in Ontario. Since its inception in 1927, the LCBO subjected alcohol consumption to its disciplinary gaze and generated knowledge about the drinking population. This book details how the LCBO tracked all alcohol consumption and capitalized on technological advances in order to generate categories and profiles of individuals so they could “control” drinking in the province. While this is a historical project, it also investigates how categorical treatment of populations like First Nations helped to develop and foster stereo-types around addiction that persist to this day.

CONTENTS

Introduction • Temperance, Business and Surveillance at the Birth of the LCBO • Self-Control and the Panoptic LCBO • Accountability: Reconstructing the Fragmented Present • A Kind of Prohibition, Part I: Social Sorting in Ontario • A Kind of Prohibition, Part II: The Application of the LCBO’s Interdiction List • Regulation of Gender Performances and the Interdiction List • From Indigenous to Indigent: Legal and Prototypical Classifications of First Nations • The Politics of Alcohol Surveillance

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Gary Genosko is Canada Research Chair in technoculture in the Department of Sociology at Lakehead University. He is the author of Félix Guattari (2009), editor of The Semiotic Review of Books and co-editor of Deleuze Studies.

Scott Thompson is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Victoria. In addition to his publications regarding liquor control, he has published material on National Registration in Canada and the UK.

 

 

The Politics of Narcotic Drugs: A Survey (book)

The Politics of Narcotic Drugs: A Survey, Edited by Julia Buxton, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for International Cooperation and Security in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK, will be released Feb 8, 2010.  The publisher, Routledge describes the book as a guide to the "issue of narcotic drugs and the impact of their prohibition on our countries and communities."

Anti-Saloon League leaders and their homes in Westerville, Ohio (booklet)

Bill Merriman, Temperance Row: The Anti-Saloon League Leaders and their Homes in Westerville [Ohio] "Dry Capital of the World"  (National Register of Historic Places, 2009).  Illustrated.  I owe my copy of this booklet to Stephen C. Gordon, curator, Wm Holmes McGuffey Museum, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Garrett Peck (Prohibition Hangover author) interview

For an interview with Garrett Peck, author of Prohibition Hangover, see here,  His grandmother was a strong believer in temperance.

St. Louis breweries (book)

Kevin Klaus, Henry Herbst, and Don Roussin, St. Louis Brews: 200 Years of Brewing in St. Louis, 1809-2009 (Reedy Press, 2009).  Includes the end of Anheuser-Busch as an independent entity.

History of Drink (book)

Jared McDaniel Brown and others, Spiritous Journey: A History of Drink, Book One, From the Birth of Spirits to the Birth of the Cocktail (Jared Brown, 2009).

Beer in Britain (book)

Martyn Cornell, Amber, Gold and Black: The History of Britain's Great Beers (History Press, forthcoming 2010).