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Alcohol - A History (Paperback)
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Alcohol - A History (Paperback)
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Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and
often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on
the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips
surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the
tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets
and as objects of social, political, and religious anxiety. In the
urban centers of Europe and America, where it was seen as healthier
than untreated water, alcohol gained a foothold as the drink of
choice, but it has been more regulated by governmental and
religious authorities more than any other commodity. As a potential
source of social disruption, alcohol created volatile boundaries of
acceptable and unacceptable consumption and broke through barriers
of class, race, and gender. Phillips follows the ever-changing
cultural meanings of these potent potables and makes the surprising
argument that some societies have entered ""post-alcohol"" phases.
His is the first book to examine and explain the meanings and
effects of alcohol in such depth, from global and long-term
perspectives.
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