A powerful study of identity formation and the power of place in the shaping of history
Sabine N. Meyer is an assistant professor of American studies at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Osnabrück, Germany.
"Long have we chanted the trinity of race, class, and gender, but
only a few scholars have been able to pull off studies that
integrate these issues. Meyer, more than almost anyone I can think
of, genuinely succeeds. A major contribution, not only to the
history of the temperance movement, but to the histories of Irish
and German Americans, to the history of women's movements, and to
the interpenetrating history of ethnicity, class, gender, and
identity."--Paul Spickard, author of Race and Nation: Ethnic
Systems in the Modern World
"A thoughtful and balanced account. Meyer shows the complexities of
ethnicity and the use of temperance and anti-temperance as motifs
around which cultural agendas were arranged."--Ian Tyrrell, author
of Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire
"In We Are What We Drink, Sabine Meyer has brewed a heady mix of
social and cultural history that will be sure to grace the
bookshelves of historians, sociologists, anthropologists and other
scholars who are keen to embrace multidisciplinary approaches t
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