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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
ISBN: 9780802715524
出版社: Walker Publishing Company
出版年: 2006-5-16
页数: 311
定价: USD 17.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Whatever your favourite tipple, when you pour yourself a drink, you have the past in a glass.
You can likely find them all in your own kitchen — beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, cola. Line them up on the counter, and there you have it: thousands of years of human history in six drinks.
Tom Standage opens a window onto the past in this tour of six beverages that remain essentials today. En route he makes fascinating forays into the byways of western culture: Why were ancient Egyptians buried with beer? Why was wine considered a “classier” drink than beer by the Romans? How did rum grog help the British navy defeat Napoleon? What is the relationship between coffee and revolution? And how did Coca-Cola become the number one poster-product for globalization decades before the term was even coined?
From the Hardcover edition.
作者简介
汤姆·斯丹迪奇，《经济学人》杂志的科技编辑，著有《土耳其人》、《海王星档案》和《维多利亚时代的互联网》（此书已被拍成纪录片）等。他曾为多家报纸、杂志撰写科技类文章，其中包括：《连线》、《卫报》和《每日电讯报》。如今他与妻子和女儿居住在英格兰的格林威治。
