Balancing Acts or Spirited Measures?
Balancing Acts or Spirited Measures?
Chapter Three begins to assess the impact of the temperance movement on public attitudes and regulation. It focuses on the new forms of drink regulation established between 1864 and 1872 with a particular concern for the Licensing Act 1872, the basis of much current alcohol regulation. It argues that the campaigns of the teetotal temperance movement were significant in instigating and legitimating the expansion of legal restrictions over the drinks trade. Furthermore, connections are identified between teetotal temperance ideas and the qualitative character of the system of alcohol regulation implemented in this period. The orthodox historical view that the temperance movement accomplished little is thus challenged.
Keywords: Licensing Act 1872, moral suasion, prohibition, problematisation, regulation, temperance, teetotalism
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