02936nam 2200625Ia 450 991078425460332120230617004526.01-281-09362-997866110936241-59213-769-5(CKB)1000000000339870(EBL)298897(OCoLC)476075155(SSID)ssj0000249864(PQKBManifestationID)11215714(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249864(PQKBWorkID)10246441(PQKB)11537329(MiAaPQ)EBC298897(OCoLC)780245697(MdBmJHUP)muse15368(Au-PeEL)EBL298897(CaPaEBR)ebr10180192(CaONFJC)MIL109362(EXLCZ)99100000000033987020030502d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe spirits of America[electronic resource] a social history of alcohol /Eric BurnsPhiladelphia Temple University Press20041 online resource (345 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-59213-269-3 1-59213-214-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-326) and index.Contents; Introduction: The Spirits of the World; 1 The First National Pastime; 2 The General and the Doctor; 3 The Father of Prohibition and Other Kinfolk; 4 The Crusaders and Their Crusades; 5 The Importance of Being Frank; 6 Hatchetation; 7 The Wheeler-Dealer and His Men; 8 The Blues and How They Played; 9 Executive Softness; 10 The Hummingbird Beats the Odds; Epilogue: Strange Bedfellows; Acknowledgments; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index""Thousands of years ago, before Christ or Buddha or Muhammad...before the Roman Empire rose or the Colossus of Rhodes fell,"" Eric Burns writes, ""people in Asia Minor were drinking beer."" So begins an account as entertaining as it is extensive, of alcohol's journey through world-and, more important, American-history. In The Spirits of America, Burns relates that drinking was ""the first national pastime,"" and shows how it shaped American politics and culture from the earliest colonial days. He details the transformation of alcohol from virtue to vice and back again, how it wasDrinking of alcoholic beveragesUnited StatesHistoryDrinking customsUnited StatesHistoryTemperanceUnited StatesHistoryDrinking of alcoholic beveragesHistory.Drinking customsHistory.TemperanceHistory.394.1/3/0973Burns Eric1539430MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784254603321The spirits of America3790314UNINA