| Description |
x, 546 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"For better or worse, alcohol has helped shape our civilization. Throughout history, it has been consumed not just to quench our thirsts or nourish our bodies but also for cultural reasons. It has been associated since antiquity with celebration, creativity, friendship, and danger, for every drinking culture has acknowledged it possesses a dark side." |
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"In Drink, Iain Gately traces the course of humanity's ten-thousand-year-old love affair with the substance that has been dubbed "the cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems." Along the way he scrutinizes the drinking habits of presidents, prophets, and barbarian hordes, and features drinkers as diverse as Homer, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Al Capone, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. Covering matters as varied as bacchanals in Imperial Rome, the gin craze in seventeenth-century London, the rise and fall of the temperance movement, and drunk driving, Drink details the benefits and burdens alcohol has conveyed to the societies in which it is consumed. Gately's lively and provocative style brings to life the controversies, past and present, that have raged over alcohol, and uses the authentic voices of drinkers and their detractors to explode myths and reveal truths about this most equivocal of fluids."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Alcohol drinking |
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Liquor industry |
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Social customs |
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History |
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Australia overseas comparisons |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-527) and index |
| Subject |
Brewing -- History.
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Alcoholic beverages -- History.
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Alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects.
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Drinking customs.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- History.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects.
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| LC no. |
2007046210 |
| ISBN |
9781592403035 hardback |
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1592403034 hardback |
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