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Author Adams, Jad.

Title Hideous absinthe : a history of the devil in a bottle / Jad Adams
Published Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

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 MELB  394.13 Ada/Haa  AVAILABLE
Description x, 294 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Devil Made Liquid -- 1 Bitter Beginnings -- 2 The Green Hour and the New Art -- 3 Absinthe for the People -- 4 Poets Breaking the Rules -- 5 Madmen of Art -- 6 The Absinthe Binge -- 7 English Decadence and French Morals -- 8 Anglo-Saxon Attitudes -- 9 Absinthe Paranoia -- 10 Twilight of the Fee Verte -- 11 Green in the USA -- 12 Pop Goes the Fairy -- Appendix: 'Lendemain' -- Notes on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index
Subject Absinthe -- History.
Absinthe -- Social aspects.
LC no. 2004298266
ISBN 0299200000