Liquor and the Liberal State: Drink and Order Before Prohibition by Malleck, Dan

Liquor and the Liberal State: Drink and Order Before Prohibition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774867160)

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Format: Hardcover
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Liquor and the Liberal State: Drink and Order Before Prohibition by Malleck, Dan

Liquor and the Liberal State: Drink and Order Before Prohibition

$89.95
Liquor and the Liberal State: Drink and Order Before Prohibition by Malleck, Dan

Liquor and the Liberal State: Drink and Order Before Prohibition

$89.95
Format: Hardcover
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How the regulation of liquor shaped the modern Canadian state.

Cultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the nation? Liquor was a tricky issue for municipal, provincial, and federal governments in Canada. Liquor and the Liberal State traces the takeover of liquor regulation by the Ontario provincial government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dan Malleck explores how notions of individual freedom, equality, and property rights were debated, challenged, and modified in response to a vocal prohibitionist movement and equally vocal liquor industry. Over time, the drink question became as political as it was moral--a key issue in the establishment of judicial definitions of provincial and federal rights, and, ultimately, in the crafting of the modern state. This work demonstrates the challenges governments faced when dealing with the seemingly simple, but tremendously complicated, alcoholic beverage.


Author: Dan Malleck
ISBN-10: 0774867167
ISBN-13: 9780774867160
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 06/06/2022
Pages: 382
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.18d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2023
By Dan Malleck
By Dan Malleck
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Dan Malleck is a professor of health sciences at Brock University, where he also serves as director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. His publications include Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking in Post-Prohibition Ontario, 1927-44 and When Good Drugs Go Bad: Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada's Drug Laws.

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