Gin
Humphrey, Shonna Milliken2020
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Gin tastes like Christmas to some and rotten pine chips to others, but nearly everyone familiar with the spirit holds immediate gin nostalgia. Although early medical textbooks treated it as a healing agent, early alchemists (as well as their critics) claimed gin's base was a path to immortality - and also Satan's tool. In more recent times, the gin trade consolidated the commercial and political power of nations and prompted a social campaign against women. Gin has been used successfully as a defense for murder; blamed for massive unrest in 18th-century England; and advertised for as an abortifacient. This short work investigates the hidden life of gin.
Main title:
Gin / Shonna Milliken Humphrey.
Author:
Humphrey, Shonna Milliken, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Collation:
160 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 17 cm.
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ISBN:
9781501353277 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
641.255641.255 HUM
Language:
English
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BRN:
278542
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