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McGovern, Patrick E.
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641.21
Publication Date
2009
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In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E. McGovern, the leading authority on ancient alcoholic beverages, brings us up to date on what we now know about how humans created and enjoyed fermented beverages across cultures. Along the way, he explores a provocative hypothesis about the integral role such libations have played in human evolution. We discover, for example.
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O'Shea, Bernadette.
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641.21 OSH
Publication Date
2009
Summary
Think Christmas, think any celebration - think champagne. With infectious good humour Australia's own champagne darling pops the cork on the champagne and chandelier world, escorting us to famous occasions involving romance, history, politics, fashion and art.
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Gately, Iain, 1965-
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641.21 GAT
Publication Date
2008
Summary
"For better or worse, alcohol has helped shape our civilization. Throughout history, it has been consumed not just to quench our thirsts or nourish our bodies but also for cultural reasons. It has been associated since antiquity with celebration, creativity, friendship, and danger, for every drinking culture has acknowledged it possesses a dark side.". "In Drink, Iain Gately traces the course of humanity's ten-thousand-year-old love affair with the substance that has been dubbed "the cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems." Along the way he scrutinizes the drinking habits of presidents, prophets, and barbarian hordes, and features drinkers as diverse as Homer, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Al Capone, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. Covering matters as varied as bacchanals in Imperial Rome, the gin craze in seventeenth-century London, the rise and fall of the temperance movement, and drunk driving, Drink details the benefits and burdens alcohol has conveyed to the societies in which it is consumed. Gately's lively and provocative style brings to life the controversies, past and present, that have raged over alcohol, and uses the authentic voices of drinkers and their detractors to explode myths and reveal truths about this most equivocal of fluids."--BOOK JACKET.
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