Prohibition in Turkey – Alcohol and the Politics of Identity Evered Hardback

Prohibition in TurkeyAlcohol and the Politics of Identity\nAuthor(s): Emine . Evered\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9781477330319, 978-1477330319\nSynopsis\nA social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.\n\nProhibition in Turkey investigates the history of alcohol, its consumption, and its proscription as a means to better understand events and agendas of the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras. Through a comprehensive examination of archival, literary, popular culture, media, and other sources, it unveils a traditionally overlookedand even excludedaspect of human history in a region that many do not associate with intoxicants, inebriation, addiction, and vigorous wet-dry debates.\n\nHistorian Emine . Evered's account uniquely chronicles how the Turko-Islamic Ottoman Empire developed strategi.