Bibliography:
This is a list of other scholars’ research. Some are peer-reviewed, pay-walled, scholarly works, and others are public-access blogs. Most of which have been integral to the case studies you see. Some are purely of interest or give historical context. Please feel free to send any more research you find applicable.
For those interested in scholars focused on the interdisciplinary study of drinking, please refer to “The Drinking Studies Network.”
General Research:
Arthur, Timothy Shay. Grappling with the Monster. Univeristy Michigan Library, 1996.
Asbury, Herbert. The Great Illusion. Praeger, 1968.
Briggs, Laura. “The Race of Hysteria: ‘Overcivilization’ and the ‘Savage’ Woman in Late Nineteenth-Century Obstetrics and Gynecology.” American Quarterly 52, no. 2 (2000): 246–73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30041838.
Cherrington, Ernest Hurst. The Evolution of Prohibition in the United States of America. Westerville, Ohio : American Issue Press, 1920.
Fisher, Irving. Prohibition at Its Worst. Alcohol information committee, New York, 1928.
Fuller, Margaret. “The Project Gutenberg EBook of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, by Margaret Fuller.” Gutenberg.org, 2012. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8642/8642-h/8642-h.htm.
Hands, Thora. “The Secret Army of Drinkers.” www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Palgrave Macmillan, June 19, 2018. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK524993/.
Hayden, Larissa. “The History of Painting Drunk People.” Medium, March 25, 2025. https://medium.com/@larissahayden/the-history-of-painting-drunk-people-15ef6dd322b2.
Howat, John K, and Natalie Spassky. Nineteenth-Century America: Paintings and Sculpture. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013.
Hub, Berthold, and Angeliki Pollali. Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Inkster, Nigel, and Virginia Comolli. Drugs, Insecurity and Failed States. Routledge, 2012.
Jennings, Paul. A History of Drink and the English, 1500-2000. Routledge, 2016.
Lcmm.org. “A New Nation of Drinkers – Lake Champlain Maritime Museum,” 2022. https://www.lcmm.org/prohibition/new-nation-of-drinkers/.
Lennox, Jemma, Carol Emslie, Helen Sweeting, and Antonia Lyons. “The Role of Alcohol in Constructing Gender & Class Identities among Young Women in the Age of Social Media.” International Journal of Drug Policy 58 (August 2018): 13–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.04.009.
Lewis, Michael, and Richard F Hamm. Prohibition’s Greatest Myths : The Distilled Truth about America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020.
Lindgren, Caroline. “Drinking in the Panopticon Female Drinkers in Dorothy Parker’s Stories,” 2009. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:240485/FULLTEXT01.pdf.
Makras, Kostas . “Dickensian Intemperance: The Representation of the Drunkard in ‘the Drunkard’s Death’ and the Pickwick Papers.” Bbk.ac.uk. Accessed April 21, 2026. https://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1597/print/.
Mark Lawrence Schrad. The Political Power of Bad Ideas. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Mendelson, Richard. From Demon to Darling. Univ of California Press, 2010.
Mitchell, Dolores. “The ‘New Woman’ as Prometheus: Women Artists Depict Women Smoking.” Woman’s Art Journal 12, no. 1 (1991): 3. https://doi.org/10.2307/1358183.
Pappas, Peter. “The Darktown Comics: Racist Caricatures in American Media.” Substack.com. The Forgotten Files, January 7, 2025. https://forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/the-cruelty-of-the-darktown-comics.
Pickett, Deets, Clarence True Wilson, and Ernest Dailey Smith. The Cyclopedia of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals. New York : Methodist book concern, 1917.
Rose, Kenneth D. American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
Sooke, Alastair. “The Art of Heavy Drinking.” www.bbc.com, January 5, 2016. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160105-the-art-of-heavy-drinking.
Unger, Richard W. Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Warner, Harry Sheldon. Prohibition, an Adventure in Freedom. The world league against alcoholism, 1928.
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