{"title":"Putting Maguey on the Map: Space, Environment and Rural-Urban Connections in the Early Colonial Pulque Trade","authors":"N. Bailey","doi":"10.1086/725708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725708","url":null,"abstract":"During the seventeenth century, the traditional alcoholic drink pulque was in high demand in Central Mexico. Historians of pulque have generally focused on consumption, emphasizing the importance of Mexico City as a drinking space. In this article, I shift the focus from consumption to production, showing the central role of rural Indigenous producer-sellers in supplying the city’s drinkers. The relationship between Mexico City and the pulque-producing towns was often reciprocal, meeting the needs of both consumers in the city and rural pulque traders. However, regional and local trade networks flourished far outside the city—inability to travel to Mexico City did not equal exclusion from the pulque trade. Furthermore, I demonstrate the geographically widespread presence of pulque commerce as a key source of income for Indigenous communities across Central Mexico, showing the importance of traditional alcohol production for sustaining Indigenous livelihoods in the colonial world.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44940674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Demoralised Drunkards’ and ‘Respectable Lunatics’: Alcohol and Psychiatry in Late Victorian Scotland","authors":"I. Smith","doi":"10.1086/725555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725555","url":null,"abstract":"During the nineteenth century, Western medicine debated whether habitual drunkenness should be viewed as a disease that required medical attention and treatment in its own right. Scottish medicine was engaged in this debate from Thomas Trotter’s Essay on Drunkenness in 1804 to the Scottish Inebriate Act of 1898. Could the “vice” of intemperance become the “disease” of inebriety? The nineteenth century saw heavy per capita alcohol consumption in Scotland, and Scottish infirmaries and asylums admitted many patients with the physical and mental consequences of heavy alcohol intake. Given this background of accumulated clinical experience, extensive evidence was taken from Scottish physicians and alienists, among others, in an 1895 inquiry into inebriety. A rich picture of the medical theory of the time emerges from the evidence taken, and this article attempts to set these views in their context and to measure their success, or otherwise, in the subsequent short-lived “inebriate reformatory” experiment in Scotland.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43322818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“That hurts you badder than punchin’”: The Troubled Teen Industry and Therapeutic Violence in Group Rehabilitation Programs since World War II","authors":"Mark M. Chatfield","doi":"10.1086/725507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725507","url":null,"abstract":"To explain the development of the troubled teen industry and the autocratic therapeutic community (ATC) movement, this article explores the rapid diffusion of Synanon-type programs in the United States since the early 1960s. Instead of tracing a history back through self-help programs similar to Synanon, a history of therapeutic violence in experimental group therapy settings suggests a new genealogy and perspective. This line of inquiry highlights the central importance of delinquency treatment methods and programs that originated during World War II, originally called the “total psychotherapeutic push method” and then renamed, “guided group interaction.” This article argues that American professionals and politicians in the 1960s were primed to endorse Synanon’s confrontational peer-counseling approach. The early adoption and rapid spread of the ATC model was facilitated by 2 decades of interest, research, policy entrepreneurship, and professional enthusiasm for guided group interaction before the spread of Synanon-type programs. That broader context helps explain the diffusion of military innovations into the civilian rehabilitation programs that normalized the use of therapeutic violence in ATCs and the troubled teen industry in the United States.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41731113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dorothea Du Bois’ Theodora: Drinking, Duelling and Domestic Violence in Eighteenth-Century Irish Literature","authors":"L. Cogan","doi":"10.1086/725505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725505","url":null,"abstract":"It has long been recognized that alcohol plays a significant role in triggering cases of intimate partner violence. However, society’s attitude toward the phenomenon can vary greatly depending on the specific historical context and the identities of victim and perpetrator. In eighteenth-century Ireland, elite culture was characterized by a prodigious taste for wine, a preoccupation with masculine codes of honor, and an ethos of lawlessness—a combustible combination that left women especially vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. The economic and political dimensions of Ireland’s eighteenth-century drinking culture have been analyzed by historians such as James Kelly and Martyn Powell, but the impact of this behavior behind closed doors is more difficult to discern. The writings of Dorothea Du Bois (1728–74) provide an illuminating window into the negative effects of male homosocial drinking and the general culture of impunity among the Irish elite within the domestic sphere.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43121033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Front Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/725537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725537","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134950048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups","authors":"Lillian Tsay","doi":"10.1086/723613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42197914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital","authors":"Dave Hazzan","doi":"10.1086/723617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723617","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44308732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Cannabis: Global Histories","authors":"Chris S. Duvall","doi":"10.1086/723611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46810448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Champagne in Britain, 1800–1914: How the British Transformed a French Luxury","authors":"P. Jennings","doi":"10.1086/723612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45412243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":The Origins of Cocaine: Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes","authors":"Joseph F. Spillane","doi":"10.1086/723616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723616","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44185354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}