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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811481603321

Autore

Unger Richard W

Titolo

A history of brewing in Holland, 900-1900 : economy, technology, and the state / / by Richard W. Unger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2001

ISBN

1-280-46462-3

9786610464623

1-4175-3675-6

90-474-0079-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (451 p.)

Disciplina

663/.42/09492

Soggetti

Beer - Netherlands - History

Brewing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-419) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction - Holland and Beer; Chapter One - Brewing in the Early Middle Ages; Chapter Two - The Medieval Transformation; Chapter Three - The Scale of the Industry in its Golden Age, 1450-1650; Chapter Four - Technology, Raw Materials, and the Seasons of Brewing; Chapter Five - Taxes, Profits, and Women's Work; Chapter Six - Investment, Concentration, and Protection; Chapter Seven - Guilds before 1620; Chapter Eight - The Data of Decline, 1600-1800

Chapter Nine - Explanations for Decline, 1650-1800Chapter Ten - Strategies for Defense, 1620-1800: Guilds and Cost Control; Chapter Eleven - Strategies for Defense: Taxes, Governments and Technical Stagnation; Chapter Twelve - Renewal and Revival, 1800-1900; Epilogue - Beer in Holland; Appendix One - Making Beer; Appendix Two - Measures; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This title offers a comprehensive history of brewing in Holland from the beginnings of large scale production at the end of the first millennium through medieval expansion, the boom of the Renaissance, and the disastrous decline of the 17th and 18th centuries.