A History of the World in Six GlassesDoubleday Canada, 8. sij 2010. - Broj stranica: 320 Whatever your favourite tipple, when you pour yourself a drink, you have the past in a glass. You can likely find them all in your own kitchen — beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, cola. Line them up on the counter, and there you have it: thousands of years of human history in six drinks. Tom Standage opens a window onto the past in this tour of six beverages that remain essentials today. En route he makes fascinating forays into the byways of western culture: Why were ancient Egyptians buried with beer? Why was wine considered a “classier” drink than beer by the Romans? How did rum grog help the British navy defeat Napoleon? What is the relationship between coffee and revolution? And how did Coca-Cola become the number one poster-product for globalization decades before the term was even coined? |
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Introduction Vital Fluids | 1 |
Civilized Beer | 24 |
The Delight of Wine | 43 |
The Imperial Vine | 69 |
High Spirits High Seas | 93 |
The Drinks That Built America | 112 |
Coffee in the Age of Reason | 134 |
Empires of Tea | 175 |
CocaCola and the Rise of America | 221 |
Epilogue Back to the Source | 266 |
Acknowledgments | 275 |
Notes | 285 |
Sources | 291 |
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