Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol (repost)
Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol By Iain Gately
Publisher: Go..th..am 2008 | 560 Pages | ISBN: 1592403034 | PDF | 6 MB
Publisher: Go..th..am 2008 | 560 Pages | ISBN: 1592403034 | PDF | 6 MB
With the same ambitious sweep and needle-in-history's-haystack approach of his previous tome on tobacco, Gately takes on all things alcohol. From absinthe to Jay-Z's boycott of allegedly racist Cristal, from Mayan pulque to Pilsner Urquell, he covers the history and the culture of the medicinal and mind-altering product that since at least 8000 B.C. has been part of human civilization. The book's first chapters chronicle the history of fermentation and distillation from early civilization through the late Middle Ages, before the narrative's bulk gives over to alcohol's story since the colonization of the New World. Gately touches on such minutiae as the tableware and music selections onboard the expedition ships that followed Raleigh to America and an exacting chronology of laws enacted to ban the sale of alcohol to Indians.