Dan Malleck

Liquor and the Liberal State

Drink and Order before Prohibition

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Produktbeschreibung

Cultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the nation? Liquor and the Liberal State explores government approaches to drink and drinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780774867177
• ISBN-10: 0774867175
• Artikelnr.: 65335301

Autorenporträt

Dan Malleck

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Arguing over Liquor and Liberalism
Part 1: Managing the Province's Liquor Problem
1 The Place of the Government in the Drinks of the People
2 Centralization, I: The Crooks Act
3 Power and Influence in the New System
4 Politics, Law, and the License Branch
Part 2: The Complications of Liquor in a Federal Liberal State
5 How Drinking Affects the Constitution, 1864-83
6 McCarthy and Crooks Enter a Tavern, 1883-85
7 Attempting to Water Down the Scott Act, 1884-92
8 Plebiscites as Tools for Change? 1883-94
9 Talking and Blocking National Prohibition, 1891-99
10 Dodging Decisions at the End of the Liberals' Era, 1894-1905
11 Drinking in Whitney's Conservative Liberal State, 1905-07
12 Centralization, II: Beyond the Crooks Act, 1907-16
Conclusion: Liquor, Liberalism, and the Legacy of the Crooks Act
Appendix 1: Questions Sent by the Select Committee
Appendix 2: Liquor-Related Laws in Force in Ontario
Notes; Index