| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Performer |
Read by Sean Runnette. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Duration: 8:00:00. |
| Summary |
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. Six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period. Tom Standage tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola. Beer was first made in the Fertile Crescent. By 3000 B.C.E., it was so important to Mesopotamia and Egypt that it was used to pay wages. In ancient Greece, wine became the main export of her vast seaborne trade, helping spread Greek culture abroad. Spirits such as brandy and rum fueled the Age of Exploration, fortifying seamen on long voyages and oiling the pernicious slave trade. Although coffee originated in the Arab world, it stoked revolutionary thought in Europe during the Age of Reason, when coffeehouses became centers of intellectual exchange. And hundreds of years after the Chinese began drinking tea, it became especially popular in Britain, with far-reaching effects on British foreign policy. Finally, though carbonated drinks were invented in 18th-century Europe, they became a 20th-century phenomenon, and Coca-Cola in particular is the leading symbol of globalization. |
| Subject |
Beverages -- History.
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Beverages -- Social aspects -- History.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- History.
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Tea -- History.
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Coffee -- History.
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Cola drinks -- History.
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International trade -- History.
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Globalization -- History.
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Beverages. (OCoLC)fst00831042
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Beverages -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00831059
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Coffee. (OCoLC)fst00866301
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Cola drinks. (OCoLC)fst00866946
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages. (OCoLC)fst00898212
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Globalization. (OCoLC)fst00943532
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International trade. (OCoLC)fst00977128
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Tea. (OCoLC)fst01144120
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HISTORY -- World.
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COOKING -- Beverages -- General.
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COOKING -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Runnette, Sean. Narrator.
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Tantor Media.
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| Added Title |
History of the world in six glasses |
| ISBN |
9781452631493 (library ed.) |
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1452631492 (library ed.) |
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9781452601496 (audiobook) |
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1452601496 (audiobook) |
| Music No. |
DD0178 Recorded Books |
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