Alcohol in World History

ISBN-13: 9780415311519 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 160 str.

Gina Hames

Opis

From the origins of drinking to the use and abuse of alcohol in the present day, this global study draws on approaches and research from biology, anthropology, sociology and psychology. Chapters include:

• the impact of colonialism
• alcohol before the world economy
• industrialization and alcohol.

Alcohol in World History combines archaeological evidence with historical case studies to produce a fascinating exploration of drink and its cultural meanings in contemporary society.

Spis treści

Introduction. Chapter 1. The Origins of Alcohol Chapter 2. Alcohol and the Spread of Culture in the Classical Period Chapter 3. Alcohol, Cultural Development and the Rise of Trade in the Post-Classical and Early Modern World Chapter 4. Colonizers and the Colonized: Alcohol in the Fifteenth through the Nineteenth Centuries Chapter 5. Alcohol, Industrialization and Temperance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Chapter 6. Imperialism and Alcohol in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Chapter 7. Alcohol and Globalization, Westernization and Tradition in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Conclusion

O autorze

Gina Hames is an assistant professor at Pacific Lutheran University. Her research interests include alcohol and the creation of identity in early twentieth-century Bolivia and in late twentieth-and early twenty-first century United States