John O’Brien, States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation (Routledge, forthcoming 2018).
Introduction
- The Evolutionary Origins Of Control
- The Social Origins of Control
- Alcohol and The Ritual Process: Identity
- Alcohols and The Ritual Process: Decontrolling
- The Limits of Ritual
- Proto States and Potlatches
- Subversive States: The Case of Russia
- States, Revenue and Interdependence
- The Politics of Centralisation: Consumption And Taxation*
- Peace, Violence and Trauma
Conclusion
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