Prohibition in Turkey
288 pages, 6 x 9
20 b&w illus.
Hardcover
Release Date:10 Dec 2024
ISBN:9781477330319
Prohibition in Turkey
Alcohol and the Politics of Identity
University of Texas Press
A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.
- List of Figures
- Note on Translation, Transliteration, Dates, and Names
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction. A Peculiar History
- Chapter 1. Ottoman Alcohol: Institutions, Traditions, and Ambiguities
- Chapter 2. Taverns, Drinks, and Drunkenness
- Chapter 3. Doctors, Drunken Bureaucrats, and Modern Temperance
- Chapter 4. America’s “Noble Experiment” and Its Reverberations Abroad
- Chapter 5. Parliamentary Politics and Alcohol in Early Republican Turkey
- Chapter 6. Drinking through Prohibition
- Chapter 7. From Repeal to Two Monopolies
- Conclusion. “Şerefine Tayyip!”
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
