A Short History of Drunkenness

A Short History of Drunkenness

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A Short History of Drunkenness. From the internationally bestselling author of The Etymologicon, a lively and fascinating exploration of how, throughout history, each civilization has found a way to celebrate, or to control, the eternal human drive to get sloshed

“An entertaining bar hop though the past 10,000 years.”—The New York Times Book Review

Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there’s drink there’s drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day’s work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle.

Making stops all over the world, A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind’s love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to the twentieth century, answering every possible question along the way: What did people drink? How much? Who did the drinking? Of the many possible reasons, why? On the way, learn about the Neolithic Shamans, who drank to communicate with the spirit world (no pun intended), marvel at how Greeks got giddy and Sumerians got sauced, and find out how bars in the Wild West were never quite like in the movies.

This is a history of the world at its inebriated best.

Specificaties: A Short History of Drunkenness

Taal

Engels

Bindwijze

Hardcover

Verschijningsdatum

mei 2018

Aantal pagina's

256 pagina's

Illustraties

Nee

Auteur

Mark Forsyth

Uitgever

Three Rivers Press (Ca)

Personage

Marvel

EAN

9780525575375

Extra groot lettertype

Nee

Gewicht

322 g

Studieboek

Ja

Verpakking breedte

133 mm

Verpakking hoogte

210 mm

Verpakking lengte

210 mm

Categorieën

Drankboeken Bier Sterke drank & Cocktails Wijn Humor Geschiedenis Sociale & Culturele geschiedenis Algemene & Wereldgeschiedenis

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