Drink : a cultural history of alcohol / Iain Gately.
Publication details: New York : Gotham Books, c2008.Description: x, 546 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781592403035 (hardcover)
- 1592403034 (hardcover)
- 641.2/1 22
- TP573.A1 G38 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-527) and index.
[Table of 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.
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