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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811137203321

Autore

Sumner James

Titolo

Brewing science, technology and print, 1700-1880 / / by James Sumner [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Pickering & Chatto, , 2013

ISBN

0-8229-6531-3

0-8229-8166-1

1-315-65451-2

1-317-31930-3

1-78144-048-4

1-78144-368-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; ; 19

Disciplina

663/.3

Soggetti

Brewing - History - 18th century

Brewing - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Principal Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- 1 The Curious Brewer -- 2 The Theorist and the Thermometer -- 3 Brewery Instructors in Public and Private -- 4 The Value of Beer -- 5 Chemists, Druggists and Beer Doctors -- 6 Professors in the Brewhouse -- 7 Treatises for the Trade -- 8 Analysis and Synthesis -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

How did the brewing of beer become a scientific process? Sumner explores this question by charting the theory and practice of the trade in Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  From an oral culture derived from home-based skills, brewing industrialized rapidly and developed an extensive trade literature, based increasingly on the authority of chemical experiment. The role of taxation is also examined, and the emergence of brewing as a profession is set within its social and technical context.