After ATHG subscribers get a chance to read The Changing Face of Drink they may care to discuss the concluding essay by Ian Tyrrell, "Tasks and Achievements of Alcohol and Temperance Historiography." The abstract reads as follows: "For too long the literature in the history of alcohol has been dominated by American issues arising primarily from the history of prohibition. While impressive monographs on many aspects of the social history of alcohol for a number of key countries have appeared, the new work remains too narrow and unintegrated. Methodologically the history of the alcohol question is best studied comparatively and internationally--that is, both between nations and across national units in what the author refers to as 'transnational history'. Such an approach would not supersede conventional comparisons between national experiences, but provide a new and richer context for their interpretation."