| Contents |
Introduction: Drink and Drugs -- 1. The Americanization of European Taste -- 2. "Stranger, You'll Take Hash" -- 3. Drink and Sex -- 4. "No Nation Is Drunken Where Wine Is Cheap" -- 5. The Failure of Controls -- 6. "The True Friends of Liberty" -- Conclusion: Social Drinking. |
| Abstract |
"Examines not only the social influences that determine what, where, and why we choose to drink but also the social ills that have been attributed to alcohol, from the supposed decline in national values to the dipsomaniacal state of our national health". -- Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-450) and index. |
| LCCN | 00503361 |
| ISBN | 0786705590 |
| ISBN | 9780786705597 |
