[Book Review Abstract] Alcohol and temperance

Abstract of a comparative book review written by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh which explores titles related to the history of alcohol and temperance. The four titles reviewed are: "Drink, power and cultural change: A social history of alcohol in Ghana, c.1800 to recent times" by Emmanuel Akyeampong (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1996). "'Through sunshine and shadow': The Women’s Christian Temperance Union, evangelicalism, and reform in Ontario, 1874-1930" by Sharon Anne Cook (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993). “Temperance and racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars" by David M. Fahey (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1996). "Alcohol in the British Isles from Roman times to 1996: An annotated bibliography" compiled by David W. Gutzke (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996).