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Alcohol in world history
Author
Title
Alcohol in world history / Gina Hames.
ISBN
0203463056
1317548701
9780203463055
9781317548706
0415311519
0415311527
9780415311519
9780415311526
Publication
Oxfordshire, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2012.
Copyright Notice Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (161 pages)
Local Notes
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Summary
Presents a history of the effect of alcohol in world history and argues that the production, trade, consumption, and regulation of alcohol has shaped virtually every civilization.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Hames, Gina. Alcohol in world history. Oxfordshire, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, ©2012 Themes in world history.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Themes in World History
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The origins of alcohol
2. Alcohol and the spread of culture in the classical period
3. Alcohol, cultural development, and the rise of trade in the post-classical and early modern world
4. Colonizers and the colonized : alcohol in the fifteenth- through the nineteenth-centuries
5. Alcohol, industrialization, and temperance in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries
6. Imperialism and alcohol in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries
7. Alcohol and globalization, Westernization, and tradition in the twentieth- and twenty-first-centuries.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Alcohol Drinking - history
Alcoholic Beverages - history
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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