Alcohol in world history /

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Author / Creator:Hames, Gina.
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description:viii, 146 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Themes in world history
Themes in world history.
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8904564
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ISBN:9780415311519 (alk. paper)
0415311519 (alk. paper)
9780415311526 (alk. paper)
0415311527 (alk. paper)
9780203463055
0203463056
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p [135]-140) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index