TOC: Social History of Alcohol and Drugs

Dear colleagues


Below please find a list of the contents of the most recent issue of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs An Interdisciplinary Journal Volume 24, No. 1 (Winter, 2010)

Dan Malleck, editor in chief.

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Essays

Opium, the United States, and the Civilizing Mission in Colonial Southeast Asia Anne L. Foster

"He is an Excellent Doctor if Called when Sober": Temperance, Physicians and the American Middle Class, 1800-1860 Scott C. Martin

Recent Dissertations on Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco and Addiction History Jonathon Erlen

Retrospective: The Class of 1979

American Alcohol Studies Matures: The Class of 1979, Thirty Years of Reflection David T. Courtwright

On Discovering Alcohol History

W. J. Rorabaugh

American Alcohol Studies Matures: The Class of 1979, Thirty Years of Personal and Historiographical Reflection Amy Mittelman

Reflections on a Life Drenched in Alcohol David E. Kyvig

Bringing the State Back in (to the Tavern) Thomas R. Pegram

A Hatchet, a Hole, and a Heel:Signposts for the Next Cohort of Alcohol and Drug Historians Jack S. Blocker, Jr.

Book Reviews

David Herzberg. Happy Pills: From Miltown to Prozac.

Andrea Tone. The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers.

Reviewed by Pamela E. Pennock


Axel Klein. Drugs and The World.

Reviewed by Susanne MacGregor


Angus Bancroft. Drugs, Intoxication and Society.

Reviewed by Cara Robinson


Susan Zieger. Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature.

Reviewed by Virginia Berridge


Michael Shiner. Drug Use and Social Change: The Distortion of History.

Reviewed by Alex Mold


Gene M. Heyman. Addiction: A Disorder of Choice.

Reviewed by Elaine Frantz Parsons


Alex Mold. Heroin: The Treatment of Addiction in Twentieth-Century Britain.

Reviewed by Stephen Snelders
Leslie Iverson. Speed, Ecstasy, Ritalin: The Science of Amphetamines.

Reviewed by Matthew Smith

Erika Dyck. Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD From Clinic To Campus.

Reviewed by Suzanne Taylor

Paul Gootenberg. Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug.

Reviewed by Joseph Spillane


James Nicholls. The Politics of Alcohol: A History of the Drink Question in England.

Reviewed by Jane McGregor


Scott Martin. The Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle Class Ideology, 1800-1860.

Reviewed by Katherine Chavigny


Julia Roberts. In Mixed Company: Taverns and Public Life in Upper Canada.

Reviewed by Josh McFayden


Christopher Routledge. Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint.

Reviewed by Alistair Mutch


Del Vance. Beer in the Beehive: A History of Brewing in Utah.

Reviewed by H. Paul Thompson, Jr.


Charles Sullivan. Napa Wine: A History from Mission Days to Present, Second edition.

Reviewed by James Lapsley


Patrick Guinness. Arthur's Round: The Life and Times of Brewing Legend Arthur Guinness.

Reviewed by Matthew J. Bellamy

Dan Malleck, PhD

Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Editor-in-chief, Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal http://historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com/