Potent Brews

by Willis, Justin

• ISBN13: 9780821414767
• ISBN10: 0821414763
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

Summary

This is the first general history of alcohol and drinking in East Africa.

Author Biography

Justin Willis is Senior Associate & Researcher at the Department of History, University of Durham

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vii
Glossary	viii
List of Maps, Tables, Figures & Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction Ambiguous power
Drink, drunkenness & society	1	(20)
What are you drinking?
Alcohol & innovation 1850--1999	21	(26)
Part One Drink, sex & violence
The nature of power in nineteenth-century East Africa	47	(3)
Wild women & violent youths	50	(45)
Drinking power
The construction of authority in pre-colonial societies	61	(15)
Chiefs & caravans
Alternative sources of power	76	(19)
Part Two Native liquor, money & the colonial state c. 1900--60	95	(80)
Selling drink 1900--60	99	(42)
Native liquor, native authority
Drinking policy & practice 1900--40	118	(23)
Clubs & beerhalls 1940--55	141	(34)
Whisky in the club
'Intoxicating Liquor' 1900--47	160	(15)
Part Three Drink & development c. 1950--90	175	(66)
`Beer is best'
Formal sector alcohol 1947--90	181	(17)
Traditional liquor & development c. 1960--90	198	(43)
`Impure spirit'
Illicit distillation, health & power	220	(21)
Part Four Drinking in the 1990s	241	(26)
Beer wars & power drinks
State, capital & drinking well-being 1991--99	243	(9)
Crises of drinking & diversification	252	(15)
Appendices	267	(24)
I European & Asian alcohol consumption, Kenya & Uganda 1922--48
II Consumption of formal sector alcohol in Kenya 1954--90
III Bottled-beer production for local consumption & excise revenue from beer
IV Modern drinking & production: summary results of surveys
V Interview details
Bibliography	291	(9)
Index	300