Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Welcome to the ADHS Daily Register

And to the online home of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal (SHAD). The site will be updated on a daily basis with news, publications, or resources of interest to members of our group. We encourage you to check back often. Keep reading to find out more about the site and how to contribute to it.

Formerly known as the Alcohol and Temperance History Group, the ADHS is an international group of alcohol, temperance, and drug history scholars. Formerly published as The Social History of Alcohol Review, the SHAD is a scholarly annual featuring peer-reviewed scholarly articles. Please explore the links on the left to learn more about the group and our journal.

The center column of the main page consists of the society's daily weblog. Each post provides information about news, publications, including book reviews, book chapters, and online articles, or other resources of interests for those who study the history of alcohol and drugs.  Each post is filed under one or more "categories" that describe its topical or geographical focus.  By clicking on the "category" links at the right, you can easily sort the content of the weblog.  On every category page, the posts are sorted from new to old.  This makes it easy to view only the material that has been posted since the last time you visited the website.

To Contribute to the Site

The site will be moderated by the Web Editor.  To contribute to the site, please send an email to Matthew McKean, with the complete details of your post, including full bibliographic information, web links, and email addresses, where necessary.  The Web Editor will add your post to the site on your behalf.

This project replaces, and may soon incorporate, the current literature feature from the print journal and the annotated bibliographies from the old Alcohol and Temperance History Group website.

Dissertations on drug and alcohol history

Jonathan Erlen (University of Pittsburgh) has compiled a list of recent doctoral dissertations on drug and alcohol history that appears in the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs beginning with vol. 22, no. 1.

SHAD review editors

Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) will join Jonathan Reinarz (University of Birmingham, England) as review editor of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. She is a specialist on the history of drugs, while he specializes in alcohol history.

Forthcoming SHAD issue from 2008 Global Approaches conference

Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, vol. 22, no. 2, will be a special issue of eight articles selected from the papers presented at the August 2008 Alcohol and Drugs History Society conference that centered on the theme of Global Approaches and which was held at Guelph, Canada. The organizers of the Global Approaches conference, Catherine Carstairs and Norman Smith, will serve as guest editors.

2011 ADHS conference at Guangzhou, China

The Alcohol and Drugs History Society has accepted the proposal of Zheng Yangwen (University of Manchester, England) that the 2011 ADHS conference be held at Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton), China.

2009 ADHS conference at Glasgow, Scotland

The Alcohol and Drugs History Society has accepted the proposal by Patricia Barton and James Mills that the ADHS hold its 2009 conference at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.

Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 22/1 (Fall 2007)

Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, vol. 22, no. 1, Fall 2007, recently was published (May/June 2008).

SHAD, vol. 21, no. 2 (Spring 2007) has been mailed to ADHS members and subscribing libraries

The Social History of
Alcohol and Drugs
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Volume 21, No. 2 (Spring, 2007)

Editor Dan Malleck reports that this newest SHAD issue has been mailed to ADHS members and subscribing libraries. It will be available online after the publication of the next SHAD issue. After that, issues will be available online a year after print publication.

Contents

Editor’s note – 116

Essays
The Colonial Identity of Wine: The Leakey Affair and the Franco-Algerian Order of Things
John Strachan – 118

Alcoholic Dogs and Glory for All: The Anti-Saloon League and Public Relations, 1913
Margot Opdycke Lamme – 138

“Drink Beer Regularly – It’s good for You [And Us]”: Selling Tooth’s Beer in a Depressed Market
Robert Crawford – 160

Closet Addiction in Fiction: The Search for Christiana Evans
Gay Sibley – 183

Book Reviews

Rudi Matthee, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900
Reviewed by Donald Quataert – 203

Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, Zhou Xun. Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China.
Reviewed by Norman Smith – 204

Kristof Glamann. Beer and Brewing in Pre-Industrial Denmark. Translated by Geoffrey French.
Reviewed by Richard J. Yntema – 206

Allan M. Brandt. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America.
Reviewed by Kraig Larkin – 207

Richard Degrandpre. The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World’s Most Troubled Drug Culture.
Reviewed by Dan Malleck – 209

Jonathan Michel Metzl. Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs.
Reviewed by Lynn Gorchov – 211

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

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.

Social History of Alcohol & Drugs, 21/1 (Fall 2006), published

The Alcohol and Drugs History Society announces the publication of volume 21, number 1 (Fall 2006) of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal.  Hardcopy has been mailed to ADHS members and institutional subscribers.  The full contents will be posted online in Fall 2007.  This number of SHAD is a special issue on smoking and tobacco, with four articles looking at Canada, Hungary, and Russia.   There also are six book reviews on various topics.

The editor of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs is:

Dan Malleck
Department of Community Health Sciences
Brock University
500 Glenridge Avenue
St. Catherines, Ontario L2S 3A1
Canada
dan.malleck@brocku.ca

Brewery History Society officers

As of the summer of 2006, the officers of the Brewery History Society included:

Ray Anderson, president
Norman Barber, archivist
Mike Brown, newsletter editor
David Dines, treasurer
David Gutzke, society bibliographer
Grahame Hedges, meetings secretary
Tim Holt, journal editor
Mik Jagger, secretary
Ian Mackey, committee member
Jeff Sechlari, chairman and membership secretary
Ken Smith, books editor
Paul Travis, bookshop sales

The BHS website is .

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.

SHAD, Spring 2006, printed version

The print version of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 20/2 (Spring 2006) has been mailed. The articles and reviews had been posted on the ADHS website sometime ago, but a change in printers had delayed the appearance of the printed version. SHAD's Fall 2006 number is in preparation.

ADHS entry in Wikipedia

Wikipedia includes an article about our organization. For the entry, 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.

call for book reviewers

The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal is seeking book reviewers. Our journal reviews books dealing with the history of drug and alcohol use and regulation, social movements relating to drugs or alcohol, and literature relating to drugs or alcohol both within and without North America. We deal with a wide variety of fields, including history, literature, sociology, and policy studies.

If you are doing academic work in the area of alcohol and drug studies and might be interested in writing a review for us, send an email to Book Review Editor Elaine Parsons at parsonse@duq.edu. Please note in your email the areas in which you would feel comfortable reviewing and attach a brief cv to the email.

If you have expressed your interest in reviewing for us before and have not yet been assigned a review, feel free to update your data and let the Book Review Editor know that you are still available.

Elaine Parsons Department of History Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA 15243 Email: parsonse@duq.edu Visit the website at http://historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com/

Gutzke's new book

Michael A. Brothers, for the May 7 News-Leader, embellishes a summary of David Gutzke's new book, Pubs & Progressives: Reinventing the Public House in England, 1896-1960, with an interview. Link here. Gutzke is the outgoing President of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society yet, amazingly, this fact is not mentioned in the article.

call for papers: conference on history of drugs and alcohol (2007)

Global Approaches: The 4th International Conference on the History of Drugs and Alcohol, August 10-12, 2007, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Drugs and alcohol have been at the heart of international trade, have played a key role in the colonial project, and have brought about large-scale social changes in societies across the world. Over the past ten years, scholarship on alcohol and drug history has expanded enormously, as scholars and activists across the globe contribute new interpretations. Global Approaches seeks to build upon increasing recognition of the international connectedness of this vital field of research by fostering further dialogue between researchers engaged in local and international studies. We invite papers on any aspect of drug and alcohol history, including consumption, production, regulation, and trade. We encourage submissions from people working on all parts of the world including North and South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, doing both local and larger-scale studies.

The keynote speaker will be: Zheng Yangwen, Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore, the author of The Social Life of Opium in China.

The deadline for the submission of proposals for panels, sessions, and papers is September 1.  Proposals should include an abstract of approximately 300 words and a short CV.  Proposals should be sent by mail to:

            Dr. Catherine Carstairs
            History Department
            University of Guelph
            Guelph, ON
            Canada N1G 2W1

Or they can be sent by e-mail to Dr. Norman Smith: nsmith06@uoguelph.ca

Funds may be available to assist the travel of international participants.

The University of Guelph is one of Canada's top-ranked comprehensive universities. Guelph, a locally renowned brewing centre, is located approximately one hour west ofToronto, Canada (just 40 minutes from Toronto's Pearson Airport). It is close to Ontario's internationally renowned Stratford Theatre Festival in Stratford, the Shaw Theatre Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and wine-touring in the Niagara peninsula.

The Conference is sponsored by the Alcohol and Drugs History Society.

[The ADHS defines drugs as including caffeinated drinks and tobacco]

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.

 

 

David Ingle, Researcher on Drinking Songs (Obituary)

David Ingle, known to ADHS members for his expertise on drinking songs, died at age 71 on 14 January 2006.  There is a full obituary with a picture in the Boston Globe, 27 January 2006, by Bryan Marquard.   

Ingle had an earlier career researching the psychology of vision.  An autoimmune neurological disease, perhaps multiple sclerosis, affected his motor abilities, so in 1992 in retired from scientific research.  He had taught at MIT and Harvard Medical School, as well as several Boston area universities.  Subsequently he found a new career.  According to the Globe, “First I learned London music hall songs from Derek Lamb … and then [from 1994] I bonded with actress-folklorist Libby Franck, who helped me take my historical and musical interests onto the stage.” Lilian Lewis Shiman provided me with a copy of an undated printed letter written by Ingle in which he asked for help finding Canadian-Irish songs.  In part, it says: “I have retired from academia (brain science) to make a second career relating traditional songs to social history.  I want to collect as many song as possible related to drinking in the British Isles and America (1550-1900), then relate the main themes to nation, era, social class or ethnicity.”  Since ADHS members probably know Ingle mostly through his contribution to the ABC-CLIO encyclopedia, Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History, the following remarks by Jack Blocker, the encyclopedia’s senior editor, are candid and illuminating.

Here are Blocker’s recollections of working with Ingle.

My first contact with David Ingle came in the fall of 2001 when we agreed that he would contribute an article on English drinking songs to what was to become Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio, 2003), but which was then little more than an idea and a headword list; I don't remember what word limit was agreed, but it could not have been more than 5,000 words, which was the largest allocation possible; He apparently mentioned wanting to include an appendix listing all the song titles he had found, but I paid little attention to it at the time, as my focus then was on finding enough contributors to write the projected number of articles.

I was then surprised and disconcerted when in June 2002 David's article arrived as an 83-page email attachment, including text, tables, bibliography, and a monster appendix listing 477 songs, each title followed by an abbreviation denoting its theme or themes; Furthermore, it was written more like a research report than an encyclopedia article.  Then followed a series of testy exchanges by email, with me insisting on condensation and David arguing that his article was unlike any other in the encyclopedia, since the others rested on published research and his was necessarily original research, as virtually nothing was published on the subject. Furthermore, he insisted on publication of the tables, bibliography and song list, considering these to represent a valuable database for future research.

The conversation continued for nearly four months. After initial threats of cancellation, we reached a compromise. The text was shortened and rewritten to sound more like an encyclopedia article, although its status as original research was still obvious. ABC-Clio agreed easily to publish the tables, bibliography and song list as an appendix, and we submitted it in a smaller font size than the text (on publication it was restored to normal font). Altogether, in editing David's article I put in far more effort, maintained a much more intense discussion with the author, and worked over a much longer period than for any other article I was responsible for editing.

I now regard David Ingle's article, "English Songs, Representations of Drinking in (1600-1900)," as one of many jewels of the encyclopedia. David's insistence on using the encyclopedia as a forum for original research opened my eyes to interesting new possibilities beyond standard encyclopedia fare. Together, his article, Jessy Randall's "Drinking Songs (United States)," and Yves Laberge's "Music, Popular, Representations of Drinking in" make the encyclopedia the place to begin research on drinking songs and draw the first map to guide further exploration of this new terrain for alcohol historians.

Volume 20, Number 1 of the SHAD

Volume 20, Number 1 of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs is now available for download.  The new volume is a special issue, with essays and an ADHS Forum from the 2004 International Conference on Drugs and Alcohol in History at Huron University College, in London, Ontario. Find it here.

Alcohol and Drugs Study Group (Newsletter)

The Alcohol and Drugs Study Group is an interest group of the Society for Medical Anthropology and the American Anthropological Association. Its most recent newsletter (published online) is for July 2005 (vol 38, no. 1). It included Nathaniel Wander, "Anthropological Approaches in Contesting the Worldwide Tobacco Epidemic"; Laurence Michalak, "An Interview with Genevieve Ames"; and Stanley Brandes, "Teaching Alcohol and Anthropology," with a link to his syllabus. The A&DSG also sponsors an electronic list. For details, click here.

SHAD, vols. 18, 19 available in print format

As of the last week of June 2005, print format editions of SHAD vols. 18, 19 became available to ADHS members and subscribing institutions.

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.

SHAD Vol. 18 Now Published!

We're pleased to announce the publication of Volume 18 of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, which continues the Social History of Alcohol Review. The contents of the journal can be accessed here or by navigating through the links on your left. These files will remain on the site permanently.

Volume 18 will also appear in perfect-bound print form, just as volume 17 appeared, within a few months. Volume 19 will be posted here within two weeks and will also appear in the usual hard copy form. Dan Malleck will supervise the production and mailing of these volumes from Brock University with the same PDF files that you can download here. Volumes 18 and 19 will then be mailed together to all ADHS members who are up-to-date on their dues payments. (If you would like to inquire about the status of your dues, kindly write, until further notice, to Jon Miller (mjon at uakron.edu), who is at work on updating the membership database before handing it off to Scott Martin, the incoming Secretary-Treasurer.)

Both volumes will be free to all in electronic PDF format. Beginning with volume 20, the SHAD will first appear in print form as a mailing to all dues-paying ADHS members. Electronic versions will then appear some time later -- perhaps six months or a year later. If there is sufficient interest among ADHS members, we may be able to convert earlier volumes of the journal to PDF form and also post them here on our website.

Reflection Essays (SHAR & SHAD)

SHAR and SHAD have sponsored a series of reflection essays:

SHAR,  no. 32-22 (Spring/Fall 1996) W.J. Rorabaugh, "Alcohol History: Personal Reflections"
SHAR,  no. 34-35 (Spring/Fall 1997) David M. Fahey, "Chance and Change"
SHAR, no. 36-37 (Spring/Fall 1998) Lilian Lewis Shiman, "Lilian Turns to Booze"
SHAR, no. 38-39 (1999) Ray Oldenburg, "The Barroom Beckons"
SHAR, vol. 15/1-2 (Fall/Winter 2000) W. Scott Haine, "My Way to the Cafe: A Topic for All Seasons"
SHAR, vol. 15/3-4  (Spring/Summer 2001) Joseph R. Gusfield, "Why I Am Often Introduced as an Expert on Alcoholism But Am Not"
SHAR, vol. 16/1-4 (Fall 2001/Spring 2002) Lowell Edmunds, "The Secular Sacrament"
SHAR, vol. 17/1-2  (Fall/Winter 2002) Dwight B. Heath, "Anthropology, Alcohol, and a Parallel Career: Serendipity Compounded"
SHAD, vol. 18 (2003) Hasso Spode, "What Does Alcohol History Mean and To What End Do We Study It?  A Plea for SpeciRalism"
SHAD, vol. 19  (2004) Ian R. Tyrrell, "Thirty-Three Years of Temperance, 1971-2004"

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.

Norman H. Clark (1925-2004)

This obituary notice, written  by John C. Burnham, appeared on the ATHG list for 12 Feb. 2004.

"Norman H. Clark, an outstanding social historian, died on 9 February 2004 in LaConner WA.  He was the author of Deliver Us from Evil:  An Interpretation of American Prohibition (1976), still the best general book on American Prohibition.  He established his reputation with a classic, The Dry Years:  Prohibition and Social Change in Washington (1965, 2nd ed. 1988), in which he pioneered in showing that Prohibition was not an aberration.  He was born in Mesa AZ on 10 May 1925.  He held a bachelors degree from Southern Methodist University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.  He taught for many years at Everett Community College and served as president of that institution.  He retired from the faculty in 1985."

Burnham also contributed an entry about Clark in the ABC-Clio encyclopedia, published in 2003.

Changes to our Organization and Journal

The summer of 2004 marked the beginning of some exciting changes. What was called the Alcohol and Temperance History Group (ATHG), founded in 1979, will now be called the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS). The organization’s publication has gone through a series of names, most recently, the Social History of Alcohol Review. Now it will be the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal (SHAD). ADHS and SHAD will expand the interest in drugs that already existed under the previous names. Earlier this year our president Ian Tyrrell recommended the expansion in the scope of the organization and its journal. Illustrating the overlap between alcohol and drugs history, the meetings held in Canada in May 2004 were called the International Conference on Drugs and Alcohol in History. The publication series planned by Northern Illinois University Press also combines alcohol history with the history of drugs.

The first number of SHAD will be an annual. David Fahey is serving as interim editor-in-chief for this issue only. Jon Miller is executive editor. The other editors are Scott Haine, Dan Malleck, and (with focus on the history of drugs) Jim Mills.

We welcome your suggestions for the journal: its contents, frequency, and format (electronic or print). SHAD is a refereed journal.

The names of the website and the listserv discussion group have changed, the former to the page you're on now and the latter to adhs@listserv.muohio.edu. Matthew McKean is the new web-editor and the new co-moderator of the discussion group.

At the beginning of 2005, Scott Martin will become secretary-treasurer.