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Mason on the Beer Act of 1830

Part I – The Preparation:

Please read:

– Misa, Chapter 3, and

– Nicholas Mason, “The Sovereign People Are in a Beastly State: The Beer Act of 1830 and Victorian Discourse on Working-Class Drunkenness,” Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 29, No. 1 (2001), pp. 109-127, available in the Readings Folder in Course Reserves.

 

Part II – The Search:

1) Select three keywords from the above materials to search for your new scholarly source.
2) Search for these keywords using the Drexel Library Databases including:

– Summon: https://www.library.drexel.edu/
– History of Science, Technology, and Medicine: http://ezproxy2.library.drexel.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=htm

***You are looking for a scholarly source–one written by a professional historian, so be careful what you choose.  [You can determine if a scholar wrote it by doing a Google search on the person, or finding their institutional affiliation in the book or essay you have located.]

Part III – The Report:
Report on what you have found.  Once you have a good scholarly essay or book (you can limit your reading to a chapter in this book), then address the question below:

Discuss:  In a 300-500 word essay, discuss how the terms you chose relate to one of the poems or images in Mason’s essay and discuss

 

A) How your terms relate into his history of the Beer Acts, and

B) How this connects specifically to the history of industrialization as portrayed in

1) The lecture (give an example), and

2) Misa’s textbook (give an example and cite it).

All essays much include:

– A list of the three keywords you searched for,
– A discussion of the above prompt,
– A bibliography of all your sources,
– In-text citations to these sources in the format (Author, page #).

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