Alcohol in world history / Gina Hames.

  • Hames, Gina.
Date:
2012
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Publication/Creation

London : Routledge, 2012.

Physical description

viii, 146 pages ; 25 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p [135]-140) and index.

Contents

The origins of alcohol -- Alcohol and the spread of culture in the classical period -- Alcohol, cultural development, and the rise of trade in the post-classical and early modern world -- Colonizers and the colonized: alcohol in the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries -- Alcohol, industrialization, and temperance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Imperialism and alcohol in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Alcohol and globalization, westernization, and tradition in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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ISBN

  • 9780415311519
  • 0415311519
  • 9780415311526
  • 0415311527
  • 9780203463055
  • 0203463056