Liquid pleasures: a social history of drinks in modern Britain

suggested informed the master's publications.) Nevertheless, I do not think that this esoteric plea for constructivist accounts of the development of medical knowledge is a severe problem for McLaren. He does direct the reader to other sources which focus on these issues. If we accept that he has developed a large historical synthesis of much material in order to construct a coherent narrative about sexuality in the twentieth century, and that he has packaged it in an extremely readable form (although in a lurid cover), then we can have something to direct our students to for an easy to read, overarching analysis of a complex issue.