Drink A Cultural History of Alcohol

Name: Drink A Cultural History of Alcohol
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ISBN: 9781592403035

ISBN-10: 1592403034

ISBN-13: 9781592403035

Edition: 2008

Authors: Iain Gately

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In the tradition of wildly popular histories such as Salt, an intoxicating tour of the cause ofand solution toall of lifes problems: alcohol Alcohol is a fundamental part of western culture and an essential element of Christianity. It is the most controversial part of our diet, simultaneously nourishing and intoxicating. 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 mankinds love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to the present day. Along the way it scrutinizes the drinking habits of presidents, prophets, and barbarian hordes, and…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 7/3/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.452
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 Fee 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