Drink is essential to life. At one time peasants drank ten pints of
ale a day: now we each sink an average of six daily cups of tea. In
short, drinking is fundamental to human experience and as such
makes a good subject for social history. Burnett has given us a
comprehensive study of imbibing and imbibers, from the 17th century
to the present: water, milk, tea, coffee, soft drinks, beer, wine
and spirits. In surveying who consumed these beverages, when, why
and in what quantities, he provides insights into drink as
sustenance, medicine, entertainment, narcotic and social statement.
The subject is approached from a novel and fascinating direction,
and key issues of the past and the present are coherently assessed.
(Kirkus UK)
Liquid PLeasures is an engrossing study of the social history of drinks in Britain from the late Seventeenth Century to the present. From the first cup of tea at breakfast and mid-morning coffee, to an evening beer and a night-cap, Burnett discusses individual drinks and drinking patterns which have varied not least with personal taste, but also with age, gender, religion and class. He views how different ages have viewed the same drink as either demon poison or medicine.
Connecting drinks and related substances such as sugar to empire as well, the book runs to the present with coverage of the startling drinks revolutions in the 1990s.
eBook available with sample pages: 0203019857
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