Mac Marshall wrote:
>
> Dear Hans (and others),
>
> There is also a literature on temperance/prohibition questions outside of
> history proper that is quite relevant to the questions you ask here.  Here
> are just a couple of examples:
>
> Chiu, AY, PE Perez and RN Parker 1997 Impact of banning alcohol on
> outpatient visits in Barrow, Alaska.  JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL
> ASSOCIATION 278(21): 1775-1777.
>
> Landen, MG et al. 1997 Alcohol-related injury death and alcohol
> availabiflity in remote Alaska.  JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL
> ASSOCIATION 278(21): 1755-1758.
>
> [see also the Editorial by Enoch Gordis in that same issue of JAMA pp.
> 1781-1782]
>
> Marshall, Mac and Leslie B. Marshall 1990 SILENT VOICES SPEAK: WOMEN AND
> PROHIBITION IN TRUK.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co.  [Truk--now
> Chuuk--is in the Western Pacific and one of the 4 states that comprise the
> Federated States of Micronesia]
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mac Marshall
>
> At 08:09 AM 1/16/98 GMT, you wrote:
> >It seems to me that David Fahey mapped out two very relevant themes for an
> >international comparative temperance history conference. I did some research
> >about these two questions, the American prohibition impact and the role of
> >religion, for the Netherlands, and would love to compare results with other
> >countries. I like to add a third subject: the role that women could play in
> >temperance organizations in various countries. The brilliant suggestion of
> >David Levine of temperance and non-temperance cultures could provide a very
> >useful framework.
> >Does anyone feel called to organize such a conference? Or have such meetings
> >already taken place? Have the papers presented at the 1997 AHA convention on
> >'Prohibition in Cross-Cultural Perspective' been published?
> >
> >Hans Krabbendam
> >Roosevelt Study Center
> >Middelburg, the Netherlands
> >
> >
> >At 14:33 15-1-98 -0500, you wrote:
> >>I second Ian Tyrrell's emphasis on the problems of writing
> >>comparative or international history.  In writing _Temperance &
> >>Racism_, my Good Templar book, I frequently worried about my grasp of
> >>context.
> >>
> >>Joseph R. Gusfield's review (Contemporary Sociology, July 1997)
> >>reminds me about another organization that could be studied across
> >>national boundaries: Klaus Makela and others, Alcoholics Anonymous as
> >>a Mutual-Help Movement: A Study in Eight Societies (Univ. of
> >>Wisconsin Press, 1996).  By the way, Gusfield was disappointed in
> >>this book on A.A.
> >>
> >>There are many other approaches possible in addition to studying an
> >>international organization.  For instance, what was the impact of
> >>national prohibition in the United States upon the temperance
> >>movements in other countries (where temperance often was in retreat
> >>after the First World War)?  Another possibility: a comparison of the
> >>role of religion in temperance movements in different countries.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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