Ron,
 
OK, so why was 1979 a banner year? Coincidence? The fruits of the golden age of sociology and social history? Or maybe something to do with a long, steady rise in per capital alcohol consumption that (if my memory serves) didn't level off until sometime in the early 1980s?
 
I'm teaching a historiography seminar this semester and I have questions like this on the brain.
 
David T. Courtwright
John A. Delaney Presidential Professor
Dept. of History
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, FL 32224-2645
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From: Alcohol and Drugs History Society on behalf of Jack Blocker
Sent: Mon 8/28/2006 9:51 AM
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Subject: Re: 1979


Of course 1979 was also the year the Alcohol and Temperance History Group was founded, at the annual meeting of the AHA, in New York.


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From: Ron Roizen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:30 am
Subject: 1979
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> Listmates, and particularly those who've been in the field for a 
> spell:
>  
> 
> Listmates:
> 
>  
> 
> A few years ago it got into my head that 1979 was a something of 
> a banner
> year for alcohol history and alcohol social studies 
> publications, an annus
> mirabilis.  I set upon compiling a list of 1979's various 
> importantcontributions to the literature.  The list got to 
> be pretty long and pretty
> impressive.  But then I stopped adding to it; and worse, 
> the list got lost
> two or three expired computers ago.  I'd like to try to 
> recreate the list,
> this time a little more efficiently.  So I'd like to ask 
> the list to help me
> recompile it.  I'm offering five items of would-be "chum" 
> for the list
> below, just to maybe get things started.  Please send only 
> contributionsthat you regard as significant work, published in 
> 1979 only.
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>  
> 
> Ron Roizen
> 
>  
> 
> 1979 List:
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>  
> 
> Tyrrell, Sobering-up (1979)
> 
> Kurtz, Not-God (1979)
> 
> Rorabaugh, Alcoholic Republic (1979)
> 
> Blocker, Alcohol, Reform and Society (1979)
> 
> Kyvig, David E., Repealing National Prohibition (1979) 
> 
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> 
> 


Jack Blocker 
History, Huron University College 
The University of Western Ontario 
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