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A HISTORY OF DRINKING
THE SCOTTISH PUB SINCE 1700 |
| By: |
Anthony Cooke |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£95.00 |
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£78.38 |
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£16.62 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1474400124 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781474400121 |
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| Publisher: |
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 July, 2015 |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
How have Scottish drinking places changed over three centuries and what makes them distinctively Scottish? What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Dorothy Wordsworth, James Hogg and Robert Southey have in common? This book considers pubs as public spaces and casts light on issues such as the rise of voluntary associations, clubs and more. |
| Synopsis: |
How have Scottish drinking places changed over three centuries and what makes them distinctively Scottish? What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Dorothy Wordsworth, James Hogg and Robert Southey have in common? They all toured Scotland and left accounts of their experiences in Scottish inns, ale houses, taverns and hotels. Similarly, poets and writers from Robert Burns and Walter Scott to Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh have left vivid descriptions of the pleasures and pains of Scottish drinking places. Pubs also provided public spaces for occupational groups to meet, for commercial transactions, for literary and cultural activities and for everyday life and work rituals such as births, marriages and deaths and events linked with the agricultural year. These and other historical issues such as temperance, together with contemporary issues, like the liberalization of licensing laws and the changing nature of Scottish pubs, are discussed in this fascinating book. It considers pubs as public spaces and casts light on issues such as the rise of voluntary associations, clubs and societies and the economic functions of pubs.It places Scottish drinking places in an anthropological context to examine their role in everyday life, community and work rituals. It discusses the temperance movement and responses to it. It interviews with present day licensees across Scotland bring the book down to the present and considers the future of the Scottish pub. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Edinburgh University Press |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award 2015 |
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Returnable |
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