Alcohol: A History

by Rod Phillips

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469617609
• ISBN13: 9781469617602
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.6"