Drink : : a Cultural History of Alcohol
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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 fée 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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Gotham Books, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: x, 546 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781592403035
1592403034
SUBJECTS
Brewing -- History.
Alcoholic beverages -- History.
Alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects.
Drinking customs.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- History.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects.