- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Pimlico; New edition edition (12 Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0712665005
- ISBN-13: 978-0712665001
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 3.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 650,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A social history of drink, this text discusses subjects as diverse as the medical prescriptions of alcohol from Biblical times on, the origins of toasting, and the reasons why the British became a nation of tea-drinkers. However, it is also a polemic, with views on the current political situation.
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British history seen through a drinking glass
"Drink" can be read several different ways: as a diatribe about how alcohol has been chosen as a scapegoat for deeper social problems; as a warming read for cold winter nights; as a alternative approach to British social history, seen through our attitudes to drink and our changes in our taste over the last millennium or so. The paperback edition contains a new preface bringing it up to date in the three years since the hardback appeared, with a rant about the wrong-headed official approach to drink-driving and the media-created scare about alcopops. The hardback was described as "Splendid and original" by the Independent on Sunday, "Fascinating" by the Daily Mail, "Absorbing" by the Guardian, etc. etc.
"Drink" can be read several different ways: as a diatribe about how alcohol has been chosen as a scapegoat for deeper social problems; as a warming read for cold winter nights; as a alternative approach to British social history, seen through our attitudes to drink and our changes in our taste over the last millennium or so. The paperback edition contains a new preface bringing it up to date in the three years since the hardback appeared, with a rant about the wrong-headed official approach to drink-driving and the media-created scare about alcopops. The hardback was described as "Splendid and original" by the Independent on Sunday, "Fascinating" by the Daily Mail, "Absorbing" by the Guardian, etc. etc.
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