Alcohol in world history / Gina Hames.

London : Routledge, 2012.

viii, 146 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p [135]-140) and index.

The origins of alcohol -- Alcohol and the spread of culture in the classical period -- Alcohol, cultural development, and the rise of trade in the post-classical and early modern world -- Colonizers and the colonized: alcohol in the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries -- Alcohol, industrialization, and temperance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Imperialism and alcohol in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Alcohol and globalization, westernization, and tradition in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.