Overview
- Explores the significance of alcohol in the Middle East and North Africa as a catalyst of social and political division
- Discusses alcohol in relation to the tensions inherent to the conforming of Islamic societies to global trends
- Chapters examine medical and public discourse on alcohol within national and imperial contexts
Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Normative Systems and Negotiated Interests
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Ambivalences and Anxieties
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Elife Biçer-Deveci is a Postdoctoral Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK, and a Fellow of the Postdoc Mobility Grants of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Philippe Bourmaud is Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary History at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 in France, and a member of the Rhône-Alpes Historical Research Laboratory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Alcohol in the Maghreb and the Middle East since the Nineteenth Century
Book Subtitle: Disputes, Policies and Practices
Editors: Elife Biçer-Deveci, Philippe Bourmaud
Series Title: St Antony's Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84001-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84000-6Published: 12 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84003-7Published: 13 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84001-3Published: 12 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2633-5964
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 232
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of the Middle East, History of North Africa, History of Religion, Cultural History, Political History, History of Medicine