03076nam 2200697Ia 450 991096200060332120200520144314.097866110936249781281093622128109362997815921376951592137695(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(Perlego)2040079(EXLCZ)99100000000033987020030502d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe spirits of America a social history of alcohol /Eric Burns1st ed.Philadelphia Temple University Press20041 online resource (345 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781592132690 1592132693 9781592132140 1592132146 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 Eric1812835MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962000603321The spirits of America4367293UNINA