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A SHORT HISTORY OF DRUNKENNESS - MARK FORSYTH K...

Almost 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 of a day's work. It can send you to sleep  or send you
into battle. A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our
primate ancestors through to Prohibition  answering every possible question along the way: What
did people drink? How much? Who did the drinking? Of the many possible reasons  why? On the way
learn about the Neolithic Shamans  who drank to communicate with the spirit world (no pun
intended)  marvel at how Greeks got giddy and Romans got rat-arsed  and find out how bars in
the Wild West were never quite like in the movies. This is a history of the world at its
inebriated best.

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