Spirits Of America: A Social History Of Alcohol

Name: Spirits Of America: A Social History Of Alcohol
Brand: Temple University Press
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paperback – January 10, 2010

by Burns, Eric

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ISBN-13: 9781592132690 ISBN-10: 1592132693

Publisher

Temple University Press

Binding

paperback

Published

January 10, 2010

Weight

1.0 lbs

Dimensions

22.90×2.50×15.60 cm

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Spirits Of America: A Social History Of Alcohol by Burns, Eric. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781592132690.

Details the transformation of alcohol from virtue to vice and back again, how it was thought of as both scourge and medicine. This title tells us how the great American thirst developed over the centuries, and how reform movements and laws (some of which, the author says, were comic masterpieces of the legislators art) sprang up to combat it.