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The history of alcohol: everything you wanted to know

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What Other Acts Have Outlawed Alcohol?

KB the ginger has asked that besides prohibition in America what other acts have tried to outlaw alcohol. I wonder if you could go into a little bit more detail about some examples there. The most famous one and certainly for an Anglo-American audience is of course prohibition, but it also brings out those nuances relating to class and gender which we were talking about earlier. It's very striking that when we have our own little gin crazes in the 20th or 21st centuries tends to be women who run in photographs being depicted as out of control.

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