A history of the world in 6 glasses /
History of the world in six glasses
Tom Standage.
- New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2005.
- viii, 311 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-299) and index.
Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt: Stone-age brew -- Civilized beer -- Wine in Greece and Rome: The delight of wine -- The imperial vine -- Spirits in the colonial period: High spirits, high seas -- The drinks that built America -- Coffee in the age of reason: the great soberer -- The coffeehouse internet -- Tea and the British Empire: Empires of tea -- Tea power -- Coca-cola and the rise of America: From soda to cola -- Globalization in a bottle.