Alcohol Flows Across Cultures

Across a wide geographic range, this book maps changing patterns of drinking. Emphasis is laid on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe regarding consumption patterns, government policies, economics and representations of alcohol and drinking.

1. Introduction: Alcohol Flows Across Cultures. Drinking cultures in transnational and comparative perspective Waltraud Ernst 2. The Same Drink? Wine and absinthe consumption and drinking cultures among French and Muslim groups in nineteenth-century Algeria Nina Saloua Studer 3. Drinking and Production Patterns of Wine in North Africa During French Colonisation, c. 1830-1956 Nessim Znaien 4. International Dis-ease: Alcohol and colonialism in the international city of Tangier, c. 1912-1956 Francisco Javier Martinez 5. Between Promotions and Prohibitions: The shifting symbolisms and spaces of beer in modern Turkey Emine OE. Evered and Kyle T. Evered 6. Good Hope for the Pilsner: Commerce, culture, and the consumption of the Pilsner beer in British Southern Africa, c. 1870-1914 Malcolm F. Purinton 7. 'A hotbed of sins' or 'just like home'? Drinking cultures in colonial Qingdao, c. 1897-1914 Sabina Groeneveld 8. Filched Fungi? Bioprospecting and the circulation of 'Chinese yeast', c. 1892-1933 Tristan Revells 9. Gariahat Whisky: Bootlegged cosmopolitanism and the making of the nationalistic state, Calcutta, c. 1923-35 Projit Bihari Mukharji 10. 'Lurvenbrow': Bavarian beer culture and barstool diplomacy in the global market, 1945-1964 Robert Terrell 11. Twenty-First-Century Transnational Neo-Temperance Julie Robert