Try to Control Yourself

The end of prohibition did not see the end of temperance in Ontario, says Malleck (community health sciences, Brock U.), which persisted as a strong and vocal movement. He traces how the social and political controversy over drinking was solved bureaucratically as government agencies gradually licensed establishments to serve and sell alcohol. Among his perspectives are liquor control bureaucracy and the mechanisms of governance, restructuring public drinking space, restructuring recreation in the drinking space, regulating the racial and ethnic outsider, and public drinking and the challenges of war. Distributed in the US by University of Washington Press and in Canada by the University of Toronto Press. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dan Malleck is an associate professor in theDepartment of Community Health Sciences at Brock University.