A History Of The World In 6 Glasses
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Author | : Tom Standage |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802718590 |
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New York Times Bestseller * Soon to be a TV series starring Dan Aykroyd “There aren't many books this entertaining that also provide a cogent crash course in ancient, classical and modern history.” -Los Angeles Times Beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola: In Tom Standage's deft, innovative account of world history, these six beverages turn out to be much more than just ways to quench thirst. They also represent six eras that span the course of civilization-from the adoption of agriculture, to the birth of cities, to the advent of globalization. A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century through each epoch's signature refreshment. As Standage persuasively argues, each drink is in fact a kind of technology, advancing culture and catalyzing the intricate interplay of different societies. After reading this enlightening book, you may never look at your favorite drink in quite the same way again.
Author | : Tom Standage |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2010-05-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0802719910 |
Download An Edible History of Humanity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A lighthearted chronicle of how foods have transformed human culture throughout the ages traces the barley- and wheat-driven early civilizations of the near East through the corn and potato industries in America.
Author | : Tom Standage |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620402858 |
Download Writing on the Wall Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Chronicles social media over two millennia, from papyrus letters that Cicero used to exchange news across the Empire to today, reminding us how modern behavior echoes that of prior centuries and encouraging debate and discussion about how we'll communicate in the future.
Author | : Iain Gately |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2008-07-03 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1440631263 |
Download Drink Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A spirited look at the history of alcohol, from the dawn of civilization to the modern day Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture. We have been drinking as long as we have been human, and for better or worse, alcohol has shaped our civilization. Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind's love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to the present day. Drink further documents the contribution of alcohol to the birth and growth of the United States, taking in the War of Independence, the Pennsylvania Whiskey revolt, the slave trade, and the failed experiment of national Prohibition. Finally, it provides a history of the world's most famous drinks-and the world's most famous drinkers. Packed with trivia and colorful characters, Drink amounts to an intoxicating history of the world.
Author | : Diego Olstein |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137318147 |
Download Thinking History Globally Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting, conceptualizing, and contextualizing, using twelve different branches of history.
Author | : Tom Standage |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2010-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307375110 |
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Whatever your favourite tipple, when you pour yourself a drink, you have the past in a glass. You can likely find them all in your own kitchen — beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, cola. Line them up on the counter, and there you have it: thousands of years of human history in six drinks. Tom Standage opens a window onto the past in this tour of six beverages that remain essentials today. En route he makes fascinating forays into the byways of western culture: Why were ancient Egyptians buried with beer? Why was wine considered a “classier” drink than beer by the Romans? How did rum grog help the British navy defeat Napoleon? What is the relationship between coffee and revolution? And how did Coca-Cola become the number one poster-product for globalization decades before the term was even coined?
Author | : Mark Pendergrast |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2010-09-28 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 0465024041 |
Download Uncommon Grounds Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The definitive history of the world's most popular drug. Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs. As the scope of coffee culture continues to expand, Uncommon Grounds remains more than ever a brilliantly entertaining guide to the currents of one of the world's favorite beverages.
Author | : Jodi Ettenberg |
Publisher | : Jodi Ettenberg |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2012-09 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 0987706160 |
Download The Food Traveler's Handbook Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Part of the Traveler's Handbook series, The Food Traveler's Handbook provides a compelling argument for why it is important to use food as a lens through which you see the world. Using this handbook as a guide, you will learn how to eat safely in developing countries, source cheap but delicious streetside meals and discover how to make food a tool for understanding a new place and connecting to its local culture.
Author | : Stewart Gordon |
Publisher | : ForeEdge from University Press of New England |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2015-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611685400 |
Download A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Roman triremes of the Mediterranean. The treasure fleet of the Spanish Main. Great ocean liners of the Atlantic. Stories of disasters at sea fire the imagination as little else can, whether the subject is a historical wreck - the Titanic or the Bismark - or the recent capsizing of a Mediterranean cruise ship. Shipwrecks also make for a new and very different understanding of world history. A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks explores the ages-long, immensely hazardous, persistently romantic, and still-ongoing process of moving people and goods across far-flung maritime worlds. Telling the stories of ships and the people who made and sailed them, from the earliest ancient-Nile craft to the Exxon Valdez, A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks argues that the gradual integration of localized and separate maritime regions into fewer, larger, and more interdependent regions offers a unique window on world history. Stewart Gordon draws a number of provocative conclusions from his study, among them that the European "Age of Exploration" as a singular event is simply a myth - many cultures, east and west, explored far-flung maritime worlds over the millennia - and that technologies of shipbuilding and navigation have been among the main drivers of science and technology throughout history. Finally, A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks shows in a series of compelling narratives that the development of institutions and technologies that made terrifying oceans familiar, and turned unknown seas into sea-lanes, profoundly matters in our modern world.
Author | : Seth C. Rasmussen |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2012-02-23 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3642281834 |
Download How Glass Changed the World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Glass production is thought to date to ~2500 BC and had found numerous uses by the height of the Roman Empire. Yet the modern view of glass-based chemical apparatus (beakers, flasks, stills, etc.) was quite limited due to a lack of glass durability under rapid temperature changes and chemical attack. This “brief” gives an overview of the history and chemistry of glass technology from its origins in antiquity to its dramatic expansion in the 13th century, concluding with its impact on society in general, particularly its effect on chemical practices.