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The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America


The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America - eScholarship

Alcohol abuse has been the most significant ongoing health prob- lem American Indians have experienced since the mid-seven- teenth century.

The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America - eScholarship

Author(s): Mancall, Peter C. | Abstract: Alcohol abuse has been the most significant ongoing health problem American Indians have experienced since the ...

The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America., American ...

Colonial accounts depict how the alcohol trade destabilized Indian communities in colonial British America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America | I-Portal

"The Bewitching Tyranny of Custom": The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America ; Health & Well-Being · Substance Use, Abuse & Treatment ; History · Fur ...

The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America

“The Bewitching Tyranny of Custom”: The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America · Peter C. Mancall · Published 1993 · History, Sociology · American ...

Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America on JSTOR

So widespread were the social costs of the liquor trade that it is tempting to ascribe them to some transnational phenomenon—the immersion of Indians in a ...

Indians and Alcohol in Early America. - jstor

These two books explore the history of alcohol consumption and trade from the early colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century.

Full article: Spaces of Intemperance & the British Raj 1860–1920

The history of the British Empire in India is one awash with alcohol. Drinking was a common practice throughout colonial society, ...

Deadly Medicine : Indians and Alcohol in Early America

... cost for the American Indians ... In the first book to probe the origins of this ongoing social crisis, Peter C. Mancall explores the liquor trade's ...

American Indians and Alcohol - PMC - PubMed Central

In colonial times, tribes as well as non-Indian authorities attempted to limit the sale or importation of alcohol within Indian territories. The bans were ...

Drinking in Colonial America - Colonial Williamsburg

Colonial Americans, at least many of them, believed alcohol could cure the sick, strengthen the weak, enliven the aged, and generally make the world a better ...

Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America. - Gale

Unfortunately, it has its roots in tragic realities. Colonial documents report Indian delegates getting drunk during treaty negotiations, Indian hunters ...

Colonial Strategies and Native American Alcohol Consumption in ...

Many Indian groups, having never experienced the effects of alcohol before European contact, became victim to its destructive and addictive qualities. Alcohol ...

American Indian Culture and Research Journal: Vol. 17, No. 2 (1993)

UCLA American Indian Studies Center Publications: Supplying various publications on Native American ... The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America, ...

Indians and alcohol in early America - University of Georgia

Alcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the seventeenth century, when European settlers began trading rum for furs.

Deadly medicine : Indians and alcohol in early America - Ex Libris

Alcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the seventeenth century, when European settlers began trading rum for furs.

Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (review)

Indian addiction to the white man's alcohol has been a feature of Native American history since early contact times. Whites for centuries have described and ...

Alcohol and the Ambivalence of the Early English East India ...

It argues that, much like elsewhere in Europe, Asia, and the colonial world, alcohol was absolutely crucial to political and social life, as ...

Alcohol use in Colonial North America - Digital Commons @ USF

Unaccustomed to the effects of alcohol, indigenous people would, “under the ... with current trends in the social history of indigenous peoples in the Americas ...

The Problem of Alcohol in Colonial India (c. 1907–1942)

Liquor (alcoholic beverages for human consumption) remained prominent in political discourse and in the public sphere in this period. Temperance ...