A Short History Of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth
How, Why, Where and When Humankind Has Got Merry from the Stone Age to the Present
A witty, fast-paced tour of humanity’s long relationship with intoxication, exploring what people drank, why they drank, and how societies celebrated, ritualized, and regulated drunkenness across time and place. From ancient Sumerian beer hymns and Greek symposia to Viking mead halls, the London gin craze, Wild West saloons, and American Prohibition, it blends history and anthropology with irreverent anecdotes to show how attitudes toward getting drunk shift with culture, class, religion, and politics.
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- Published
- 2017
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 224-256
- Original Language
- English
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