Description: Short History of Drunkenness : How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present, Hardcover by Forsyth, Mark, ISBN 0525575375, ISBN-13 9780525575375, Brand New, Free shipping in the US From the internationally bestselling author of The Etymologicon, a lively and fascinating exploration of how, throughout history, each civilization has found a way to celebrate, or to control, the eternal human drive to get sloshed
“An entertaining bar hop though the past 10,000 years.”—The New York Times Book Review
Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there’s drink there’s drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day’s work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle.
Making stops all over the world, A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind’s love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to the twentieth century, answering every possible question along the way: What did people drink? How much? Who did the drinking? Of the many possible reasons, why? On the way, learn about the Neolithic Shamans, who drank to communicate with the spirit world (no pun intended), marvel at how Greeks got giddy and Sumerians got sauced, and find out how bars in the Wild West were never quite like in the movies.
This is a history of the world at its inebriated best.
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Book Title: Short History of Drunkenness : How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Beverages / Alcoholic / General, Social History, Curiosities & Wonders, Psychopathology / Addiction, Chemistry / Organic
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Cooking, Référence, Science, Psychology, History
Item Weight: 11.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Mark Forsyth
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Hardcover
