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
Notes
Originally published: 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140) and index
