| Description |
viii, 146 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Themes in world history
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Themes in world history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- History.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages. |
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History. |
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Alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects -- History.
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Alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects. |
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Alcoholic beverages. |
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Alcoholic beverage industry -- Social aspects -- History.
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Alcoholic beverage industry. |
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Social aspects. |
| ISBN |
0415311519 (alkaline paper) |
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0415311527 (alkaline paper) |
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0203463056 |
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9780415311519 (alkaline paper) |
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9780415311526 (alkaline paper) |
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9780203463055 |
| Standard No. |
40021272369 |
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