Comprehensive and detailed, this is the first ever study of ancient beer and its distilling, consumption and characteristics

Examining evidence from Greek and Latin authors from 700 BC to AD 900, the book demonstrates the important technological as well as ideological contributions the Europeans made to beer throughout the ages.

The study is supported by textual and archaeological evidence and gives a fresh and fascinating insight into an aspect of ancient life that has fed through to modern society and which stands today as one of the world's most popular beverages.

Students of ancient history, classical studies and the history of food and drink will find this an useful and enjoyable read.

Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of a long history of global commerce, imperial competition, and the movement of people and ideas in places as far flung as India, Egypt, Guiana, and the Caribbean. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive for human rights with various forms of exclusion. The essays examine topics including the role of smuggling and free trade in the origins of the French Revolution, the entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, and the influence of the French revolutionary wars on the shape of American empire.

The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.

Contributors: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University; Ian Coller, La Trobe University; Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University; Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin Madison; Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles; Andrew Jainchill, Queen's University; Michael Kwass, The Johns Hopkins University; William Max Nelson, University of Toronto; Pierre Serna, Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne; Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona; Charles Walton, Yale University"

A collection of essays by the winner and the five finalists of the prestigious Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize 2017, which will be announced in June 2017 The biennial Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize is open to all essays written in English of between 2,000 and 8,000 words on any subject. The first prize is 20,000 and five runners-up each receive 1,000, making it the richest nonfiction prize in the world. The winner of the inaugural prize in 2013 was Michael Ignatieff, with his essay on Raphael Lemkin and genocide; the 2015 prize was won by the African-American author David Bradley, with his essay on the use of the word -nigger.- Authors on the 2015 prize long list included Hal Foster, Ben Lerner, Tim Parks, Iain Sinclair, Meghan Daum, and Rupert Sheldrake. Judges for the 2017 Notting Hill Essay Prize include Kirsty Gunn, essayist and novelist; Daniel Mendelsohn, essayist, memoirist and critic; Sameer Rahim, Arts & Books Editor of Prospect; Rosalind Porter, Deputy Editor of Granta; and writer and broadcaster Travis Elborough. In the words of Adam Mars-Jones, a judge and the chair of the 2015 prize, the winning writers -understand that it is not just what we see, but how we see it.- The essays demonstrate the dazzling literary range of the form. Notting Hill Editions is a British independent publisher devoted to restoring the essay in literary and commercial form. The company was founded in 2011 by Tom Kremer, the man responsible for discovering and licensing the Rubik's Cube.

Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of a long history of global commerce, imperial competition, and the movement of people and ideas in places as far flung as India, Egypt, Guiana, and the Caribbean. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive for human rights with various forms of exclusion. The essays examine topics including the role of smuggling and free trade in the origins of the French Revolution, the entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, and the influence of the French revolutionary wars on the shape of American empire.

The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.

Contributors: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University; Ian Coller, La Trobe University; Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University; Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin Madison; Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles; Andrew Jainchill, Queen's University; Michael Kwass, The Johns Hopkins University; William Max Nelson, University of Toronto; Pierre Serna, Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne; Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona; Charles Walton, Yale University"