And a Bottle of Rum, Revised and Updated
Title | And a Bottle of Rum, Revised and Updated PDF eBook |
Author | Wayne Curtis |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2018-06-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0525575030 |
Now revised, updated, and with new recipes, And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of this most American of liquors From the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of Havana bar hoppers, spirits and cocktail columnist Wayne Curtis offers a history of rum and the Americas alike, revealing that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the booming sugar trade has managed to infiltrate every stratum of New World society. Curtis takes us from the taverns of the American colonies, where rum delivered both a cheap wallop and cash for the Revolution; to the plundering pirate ships off the coast of Central America; to the watering holes of pre-Castro Cuba; and to the kitsch-laden tiki bars of 1950s America. Here are sugar barons and their armies conquering the Caribbean, Paul Revere stopping for a nip during his famous ride, Prohibitionists marching against "demon rum," Hemingway fattening his liver with Havana daiquiris, and today's bartenders reviving old favorites like Planter's Punch. In an age of microbrewed beer and single-malt whiskeys, rum--once the swill of the common man--has found its way into the tasting rooms of the most discriminating drinkers. Complete with cocktail recipes for would-be epicurean time-travelers, this is history at its most intoxicating.
American-Australian Relations
Title | American-Australian Relations PDF eBook |
Author | Levi |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN | 1452909393 |
Brain-Robbers
Title | Brain-Robbers PDF eBook |
Author | Frances R. Frankenburg MD |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2014-03-28 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1440829322 |
A psychiatrist examines how the world's four most important mind-altering substances— alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates—have played a significant role throughout human history, and explains how these powerful drugs affect the brain and cause addiction. Alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates have spurred some of the greatest human pleasure and pain across time. Providing information that ranges as widely as from ancient Egypt to modern times, this book comprehensively addresses the good, the bad, and the very ugliest aspects of these substances, examining their history, their effects on the brain and body, and on civilization itself. Frances R. Frankenburg, MD, employs accessible, everyday language to explain the neurology of addiction and describe how these "brain-robbing" substances work to hijack the brain's pleasure systems to create powerful addictions. The author also provides perspective into the intertwined, inescapable, and often uneasy relationship between these substances and human culture, economics, and politics—for example, how individuals become physically or psychologically addicted to alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates, while governments become financially "addicted" to the revenue, such as taxes, that can be collected from the sale and use of these substances.
History of Metals in Colonial America
Title | History of Metals in Colonial America PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Mulholland |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 1981-07-04 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0817300538 |
In the struggle to create an indigenous industry, in the efforts to encourage and support the work of metals craftsmen, in the defiance of British attempts to regulate manufacturing of metals, the colonial society developed a metals technology that became the basis for future industrial growth.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Title | Catalog of Copyright Entries PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1284 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Title | Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Pages | 2334 |
Release | 1929 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 25 : Nos. 1-121 (March - December, 1928)
News Notes of California Libraries
Title | News Notes of California Libraries PDF eBook |
Author | California State Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1156 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Libraries |
ISBN |
Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.