A Short History of Drunkenness
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THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANYONE WHO ENJOYS A TIPPLE . . . OR TWO . . . OR TEN!
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. Tracing humankind's love affair…
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This is a great one to read in tandem with The Dawn of Everything, as they cover a similarly enormous timespan but in very different ways.
The provocative suggestion that humans might have invented agriculture primarily as a means of having more regular and reliable access to booze was… unexpected! The more modern eras of history are also handled punchily, including some forceful overturning of the most enduring misconceptions about the 1920s prohibition of alcohol in the United States.
Forysth’s telling of human history through our myriad, complicated ways of getting drunk and all the social and legal rules…
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