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

• Autore: Sumner James
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Pickering & Chatto, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 663/.3
• Soggetto topico: Brewing - History - 18th century; Brewing - History - 19th century
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Brewing Science, Technology & Print, 1700-1880
• Titolo autorizzato: Brewing science, technology and print, 1700-1880
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811137203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; ; 19.