Drink A Cultural History of Alcohol

Name: Drink A Cultural History of Alcohol
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ISBN: 9781592404643

ISBN-10: 1592404642

ISBN-13: 9781592404643

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Authors: Iain Gately

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A spirited look at the history of alcohol, from the dawn of civilization to the modern day Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture. We have been drinking as long as we have been human, and for better or worse, alcohol has shaped our civilization. Drinkinvestigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind’s love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to the present day. Drinkfurther documents the contribution of alcohol to the birth and growth of the United States, taking in the War of Independence, the Pennsylvania Whiskey revolt, the slave trade, and the failed experiment of national Prohibition. Finally, it provides a history of the world’s most…

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List price: $23.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 5/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Grain and the Grape



Bacchanal



In Vino Veritas



Wine, Blood, Salvation



Barbarians



Islam



Brews for Breakfast



A New World of Drinking



Watkin's Ale



Pilgrims



Restoration



Rum



Gin Fever



Progress



Revolution



Warra Warra



Whiskey with an e



Romantic Drinking



Apostles of Cold Water



West



The King of San Francisco



Good Taste



Emancipation



Imperial Preference



La Fï¿½e Verte



Hatchetation



In the Chalk Trenches of Champagne



Amphibians



Lost



Crime and Punishment



The Bottle



Reconstruction



Flashbacks



Westernization



Messages



Singletons, Wine Lakes, and the Moscow Express



Fiat Lux


Notes


Index