I am very pleased to announce that a new volume of essays on drink
and temperance will soon be published.  Entitled THE CHANGING FACE OF
DRINK: SUBSTANCE, IMAGERY, AND BEHAVIOUR and co-edited by Jack S. Blocker
Jr. and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, the volume will be published in soft cover
for HISTOIRE SOCIALE/SOCIAL HISTORY by the University of Toronto Press.
The book contains fifteen articles and an introduction.  Included are nine
essays originally presented as papers at the 1993 International Congress
on the Social History of Alcohol held at Huron College, London, Ontario,
and first published in the November 1994 issue of HISTOIRE SOCIALE/SOCIAL
HISTORY, plus Jack Blocker's revised introduction to that issue.  In
addition, the volume contains six other papers presented at the
International Congress but not previously published.  Publication is
planned for June or July 1997.  A price has not yet been set, but should
be shortly.
        In order to determine the size of the press run, I am seeking
information on possible course adoptions.  Please let me know whether you
would consider adopting this text for course use and, if so, the
approximate size of the class and starting date of the course.  Also
please forward this inquiry to anyone you know who might adopt the book
for course use but who does not subscribe to this list.
        The table of contents follows.
 
                THE CHANGING FACE OF DRINK: SUBSTANCE, IMAGERY, AND
BEHAVIOUR, edited by Jack S. Blocker Jr. and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
 
        "Introduction," by Jack S. Blocker Jr.
 
        "Gender and Alcohol Use in Early Modern Augsburg," by Beverly Ann
Tlusty.
 
        "Fish into Wine: The Historical Anthropology of Demand for Alcohol
in 17th-Century Newfoundland," by Peter Pope.
 
        "From Drinkseller to Social Entrepreneur: The Parisian
Working-Class Cafe Owner, 1789-1914," by W. Scott Haine.
 
        "The Battle Between Carnival and Lent: Temperance and Repeal in
Ireland, 1829-1845," by George Bretherton.
 
        "Drinkers, Drunkards, and Degenerates: The Alcoholic Population of
a Parisian Asylum, 1867-1914," by Patricia E. Prestwich.
 
        "Blacks, Good Templars, and Universal Membership: Conflict over
Black Membership in the Good Templar Fraternal Temperance Order after the
American Civil War," by David M. Fahey.
 
        "Hegemony and Failure: Orange Lodges, Temperance Lodges, and
Respectability in Victorian Ontario," by Christopher J. Anstead.
 
        "Working from the Outside In: Development and Diversity in Four
Local Woman's Christian Temperance Unions in Ontario, 1877-1895," by
Daniel J. Malleck.
 
        "Temperance from Below," by Sidsel Eriksen.
 
        "'A Medical Cromwell to Depose King Alcohol': Medical Scientists,
Temperance Reform and the Alcohol Problem in Britain," by Joanne Woiak.
 
        "Molding and Making the Next Generation of Men: The Kansas WCTU
and the Loyal Temperance Legion, 1890-1940," by Nancy G. Garner.
 
        "Gender, Class, and Public Drinking in Britain during the First
World War," by David W. Gutzke.
 
        "The State and Liquor Revenues: Promoting 'Economic Development in
Gold Coast/Ghana, 1919 to the Present," by Emmanuel Akyeampong.
 
        "Prohibition, American Cultural Expansion, and the New Hegemony in
the 1920s: An Interpretation," by Ian R. Tyrrell.
 
        "Tasks and Achievements of Alcohol and Temperance Historiography:
An International Perspective," by Ian R. Tyrrell.
 
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Jack Blocker
History, Huron College, University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario N6G 1H3 Canada
(519) 438-7224, ext. 249 /Fax (519) 438-3938