Narratives of Drunkenness:
Belgium, 1830–1914
An Vleugels
Perspectives in Economic and Social History
Hb: 256pp:
February 2013
978 1 84893 332 3: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 84893 332 3: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 84893 333 0
Focusing on Belgium from the mid-nineteenth century until the First World War, Vleugels presents a study of the drunkard in society. Shifting attitudes and medical debates are documented and analyzed within the context of wider social and political change. The study is unique in offering a social history of Belgium through the lens of drunkenness, and in its focus on the role of drink in the formation of class, gender and national identities.
Readership
Social History, History of Medicine and Gender Studies