Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776PublicAffairs, 2006 M08 18 - 304 páginas Rum arguably shaped the modern world. It was to the eighteenth century what oil is to the present, but its significance has been diminished by a misguided sense of old-fashioned morality dating back to Prohibition. In fact, Rum shows that even the Puritans took a shot now and then. Rum, too, was one of the major engines of the American Revolution, a fact often missing from histories of the era. Ian Williams's book -- as biting and multilayered as the drink itself -- triumphantly restores rum's rightful place in history, taking us across space and time, from the slave plantations of seventeenth-century Barbados (the undisputed birthplace of rum) through Puritan and revolutionary New England, to voodoo rites in modern Haiti, where to mix rum with Coke risks invoking the wrath of the gods. He also depicts the showdown between the Bacardi family and Fidel Castro over the control of the lucrative rights to the Havana Club label. Telling photographs are also featured in this barnstorming history of the real "Spirit of 1776." |
Contenido
THE SPIRIT OF 1776 | 59 |
PART III ROLLING AROUND THE WORLD | 203 |
17 High Spirits | 205 |
The Navy and Rum | 225 |
19 Rum Around the World | 255 |
Haiti | 271 |
21 Cuba Libre | 283 |
22 Prohibition and the End of the Heroic Age of Rum? | 301 |
Bibliography | 313 |
Endnotes | 325 |
333 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776 Ian Williams Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776 Ian Williams Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776 Ian Williams Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
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