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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A fun read, full of facts and figures.,
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This review is from: Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain (Paperback)
This is really a fun read, covering British drinking habits, alchoholic and otherwise. It purports to cover several centuries but is really mostly about the late 18th century to the early 20th. My only major gripe is that it is based entirely on secondary sources -other people's work. So as a survey it is very useful, but really doesn't contribute anything new to the scholarship. It is also clearly written by a social scientist -lots of tables and figures, and even the text decribes trends quantitatively. For the qualitative-minded, we are rarely given more than anecdotes about why culturally shifts in national preferences occured. These tend to be obscured by heaps of evidence drawn from new laws, import duties, and marketing schemes. All in all, pleasant reading, but patience with numbers is required.
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Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain by John Burnett (Paperback - August 5, 1999)
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