ABSTRACT

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a dozen small towns in rural South Australia began a unique social experiment: they imported an alcohol control model from Sweden designed to curb drunkenness, reform the pub and distribute profits for the benefit of the community. The innovative idea of local citizens owning and governing their hotel by committee, and doing away with the drive for personal profit, was an adaptation of the Swedish Gothenburg system. In Australia, it was put into practice in 1897 in the temperance town of Renmark on the River Murray, and other like-minded communities in South Australia followed suit over the next 50 years. This article tells the little-known history of these hotels and explains how and why ideas about the cooperative management of alcohol were found to be particularly compatible with the social and cultural history of South Australia. These Gothenburg experiments connected rural Australia with alcohol policies advancing the municipalisation and improvement of the public house and with progressive ideas of planned towns and garden cities that were being implemented in Sweden and Britain at the time.

抽象的

在19世纪末和20世纪初，南澳大利亚农村的十几个小镇开始了独特的社会实验：他们从瑞典进口了一种酒精控制模型，旨在遏制醉酒，改革酒馆和分配利润，以造福社区。当地居民通过委员会拥有和管理酒店并放弃谋取私利的创新思想是对瑞典哥德堡体系的改编。在澳大利亚，它于1897年在墨累河上的节制小镇Renmark投入使用，在随后的50年中，南澳大利亚的其他志同道合的社区也纷纷效仿。本文讲述了这些酒店鲜为人知的历史，并解释了如何以及为什么关于酒精合作管理的想法被发现与南澳大利亚州的社会和文化历史特别相容。这些哥德堡实验将澳大利亚乡村地区与酒精政策联系起来，以推进市政化和公共房屋的改善，并提出了当时在瑞典和英国实施的规划城镇和花园城市的渐进构想。