The History of Drink

James Samuelson

Maison d'édition: Good Press

Synopsis

James Samuelson's The history of drink: A review, social, scientific, and political is a wide-ranging nineteenth-century study of alcohol that combines historical survey with moral and civic argument. Moving across customs of drinking, the physiological effects of intoxicants, and the public consequences of habitual consumption, the book is written in the lucid, didactic prose of Victorian nonfiction. Its method is synthetic rather than purely archival, placing social observation beside scientific discussion and legislative debate, and situating the work within the era's vigorous temperance and public-health literature. Samuelson, a Victorian journalist and man of letters deeply engaged with questions of social improvement, wrote at a time when industrialization, urban poverty, and reform politics made drink a matter of urgent national concern. His broader interests in science, education, and public policy help explain the book's interdisciplinary scope. Rather than treating alcohol merely as a private indulgence, he examines it as a subject that touches medicine, economics, domestic life, and governance. This is a valuable book for readers interested in the history of reform, Victorian social thought, and the cultural politics of everyday life. It rewards anyone seeking a historically grounded account of how drink became a scientific, moral, and political problem in modern Britain.

Disponible depuis: 29/06/2026.

Longueur d'impression: 222 pages.

Sciences humaines et Humanités

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