Liquor and the Liberal State

Drink and Order Before Prohibition

AvDan Malleck

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Cultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the nation? Liquor was a tricky issue for municipal, provincial, and federal governments after Confederation. Liquor and the Liberal State traces how the Ontario provincial government's takeover of liquor regulation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved both discrete local politics and expansive constitutional questions.Dan Malleck explores how notions of individual freedom, equality, and property rights were debated, challenged, and modified in response to a vocal prohibitionist movement and equally vocal liquor industry. While the liquor licensing regime helped build a vast patronage base for the governing Liberal Party, some believed it exceeded the constitutional authority of the province. The drink question became as political as it was moral – a key issue in the establishment of judicial definitions of provincial and federal rights and, ultimately, in the crafting of the modern state. This lively and meticulous work demonstrates the challenges governments faced when dealing with the seemingly simple, but tremendously complicated, alcoholic beverage.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:740 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774867160

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Dan Malleck is a professor of the history of medicine in the Department of Health Sciences at Brock University and the director of Brock's Centre for Canadian Studies. His publications include Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking in Post-Prohibition Ontario, 1927–44, which won a Clio Prize for Ontario history, and When Good Drugs Go Bad: Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada's Drug Laws.

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Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Arguing over Liquor and LiberalismPart 1: Managing the Province's Liquor Problem1 The Place of the Government in the Drinks of the People2 Centralization, I: The Crooks Act3 Power and Influence in the New System4 Politics, Law, and the License BranchPart 2: The Complications of Liquor in a Federal Liberal State5 How Drinking Affects the Constitution, 1864–836 McCarthy and Crooks Enter a Tavern, 1883–857 Attempting to Water Down the Scott Act, 1884–928 Plebiscites as Tools for Change? 1883–949 Talking and Blocking National Prohibition, 1891–9910 Dodging Decisions at the End of the Liberals' Era, 1894–190511 Drinking in Whitney's Conservative Liberal State, 1905–0712 Centralization, II: Beyond the Crooks Act, 1907–16Conclusion: Liquor, Liberalism, and the Legacy of the Crooks ActAppendix 1: Questions Sent by the Select CommitteeAppendix 2: Liquor-Related Laws in Force in OntarioNotes; Index