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Drink in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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Drink in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

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Part I. Ritual and material culture
Politics by design : consumption, identity and allegiance / Karen Harvey
Drinks, domesticity and the forging of an American identity in Susan Warner's The wide, wide world (1850) / Caroline Rosenthal
Part II. Institutions and social class
Café or coffeehouse? Transnational histories of coffee and sociability / Brian Cowan
Claret at a premium : Ned Ward, the true Tory defender of fine wines? / Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann
Eighteenth-century travellers and the country inn / Susanne Schmid
Drinking, fighting and working-class sociability in nineteenth-century Britain / John Carter Wood
Part III. Temperance and the misery of alcohol
Romantic radicalism and the temperance movement / Rolf Lessenich
The myth of "misery alcoholism" in early industrial England : the example of Manchester / Gunther Hirschfelder
Part IV. Intoxication and therapy
Alcohol, sympathy and ideology in George Gissing's The nether world (1889) and The odd women (1893) / Anja Mülle-Wood
Legends of inferrnal drinkers : representations of alcohol in Thomas Hardy and nineteenth-century British fiction / Norbert Lennartz
The spirit of medicine : the use of alcohol in nineteenth-centuy medical practice / Jonathan Reinarz and Rebecca Wynte
Part V. Case studies : rum, cocoa and magical potions
"Been to Barbados" : rum (bullion), race, the Gaspée and the American Revolution / Eva-Sabine Zehelein
A beverage for the masses : the democratization of cocoa in nineteenth-century American fiction / Monika Elbert
The power of the potion : from gothic horror to health drink, or, how the elixir became a commodity / Elmar Schenkel.

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