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A Short History of Drunkenness

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

A Short History of Drunkenness

By Mark Forsyth

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About the book

A comic history of humankind's love affair with booze, from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Etymologicon'Haha! . . . Highly suitable for Xmas!' - Margaret AtwoodAlmost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end...Show more

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History: theory and methods
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ISBN

9780241359242

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2018

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A Short History of Drunkenness

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Paperback

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