Primary Sources
- AM Explorer This link opens in a new window AM Explorer is a cross-collection search of the entire corpus of Adam Matthew's digitized arts and cultural heritage material in subjects including Area Studies, Cultural Studies, Empire and Globalism, Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality, History, Politics, Literature, Theatre, and War and Conflict.
- Food and Drink in History (AM Explorer) From feast to famine, explore primary source material documenting the story of food and drink throughout history. The materials in this collection illustrate the deep links between food and identity, politics and power, gender, race and socio-economic status, as well as charting key issues around agriculture, nutrition and food production.
- Alcohol Production and Consumption (Food and Drink in History) This theme spans almost the entire historical range of the resource, with alcohol never far removed from the discourse of food. It covers the production and consumption of alcohol in both commercial and domestic contexts, from sixteenth-to eighteenth century cookbooks with household recipes for alcoholic drinks, to nineteenth century texts on commercial brewing and distilling and twentieth century marketing reports for brands of spirits. Documents in this theme encompass the production, marketing, sale and consumption of alcohol, as well as abstinence from it, with coverage of temperance and the prohibition movement.
- Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange (AM Explorer) This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years. They helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices.
- Temperance and Prohibition Movement, 1830-1933 (ProQuest History Vault) This link opens in a new window This collection contains records and publications of the principal organizations which sought to reduce and ultimately to eliminate the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This collection contains almost all known records of the major national temperance organizations, including the Anti-Saloon League of America (A.S.L.A.) and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.).
- Drink Through Time, Food and Drink in History (AM Explorer) Viniculture and Viticulture (the history of grape-growing and winemaking); California Wine Industry; The Belle Époque (study of French wine)
