Temperance Lives
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-52971-7 (ISBN)
James Kneale examines how temperance life insurance - initially a speculative business venture - evolved into a social experiment that played a crucial role in persuading ordinary people, doctors, and insurance firms that abstaining from alcohol was safer than drinking it. Drawing from archival materials, Kneale analyses contemporary stories from teetotallers and high-street temperance businesses, and investigates the broader impact on 'temperance towns' such as Manchester, Exeter, and the settlements of the Pendle area.
By charting the evolution of the first temperance life assurance firm the UK Temperance and General Provident Institution (UKT) from its difficult beginnings, to being the eighth largest British life assurance firm by the 1890s, the author demonstrates to readers how quickly social attitudes surrounding teetotalism changed, and why.
James Kneale is Associate Professor of Geography at University College London, UK.
SECTION 1 ORDINARY TEMPERANCE
Introduction: A man walks into a life assurance office
1. Ordinary Temperance
2.Temperance Towns
SECTION 2 TEMPERANCE LIFE INSURANCE AS SPECULATIVE VENTURE AND SOCIAL EXPERIMENT, 1840-1850
3. Experiments: Thin and watery and mentally cranked
4. Statistics and forms: Those that don’t drink don’t die so fast
5. Networks: Proselytizing fervour, minute inquisitorial inquiry
SECTION 3 IMPROVING TEMPERANCE LIVES, 1850-1918
6. Improvement: A very business-like argument
7. Ordinary lives: The Sceptre sample
8. Medicine: An institution for educating the medical men
CONCLUSIONS
9. Temperance life assurance and the new moderationism
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.11.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 164 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 620 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-52971-0 / 1350529710 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-52971-7 / 9781350529717 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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