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History Post-confederation (1867-)

Try to Control Yourself

The Regulation of Public Drinking in Post-Prohibition Ontario, 1927-44

by (author) Dan Malleck

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2012
Category
Post-Confederation (1867-), General, Disease & Health Issues, Ontario (ON), Health Policy, Social History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774822206
    Publish Date
    Apr 2012
    List Price
    $85.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774822213
    Publish Date
    Jan 2013
    List Price
    $32.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774822220
    Publish Date
    Apr 2012
    List Price
    $125.00

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Description

Countless authors, historians, journalists, and screenwriters have written about the prohibition era, an age of jazz and speakeasies, gangsters and bootleggers. But only a few have explored what happened when governments turned the taps back on.

 

Dan Malleck shifts the focus to Ontario following repeal of the Ontario Temperance Act, an age when the government struggled to please both the “wets” and the “drys,” the latter a powerful lobby that continued to believe that alcohol consumption posed a terrible social danger. Malleck’s investigation of regulation in six diverse communities reveals that rather than only pandering to temperance forces, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario sought to define and promote manageable drinking spaces in which citizens would learn to follow the rules of proper drinking and foster self-control.

 

The regulation of liquor consumption was a remarkable bureaucratic balancing act between temperance and its detractors but equally between governance and its ideal drinker.

About the author

Awards

  • Winner, Best Health and Drinks Book (World), Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
  • Winner, Gourmand Best Health and Drinks Book (Canada - English), Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
  • Winner, CLIO Prize for Ontario, Canadian Historical Association

Contributor Notes

Dan Malleck is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at Brock University.

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