Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Perspectives in Economic and Social History) - Hardcover

'[an] impressive collection of essays ... helps us better understand the relations between the messy materialities of drinking practices and their representations in and across time and space.' Journal of Historical Geography 'Most academics are interested in drink. In this volume that interest is put to wonderful academic purpose in a series of essays on the role of drink in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. It is to be recommended to anyone with a serious interest in drink, wine or spirits, coffee or cocoa, from health cure to moral danger, as it figured in the British national imaginary from 1700 to 1900.' Jon Mee, University of York

This collection of essays covers the representation and practice of drinking a variety of beverages across eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and North America. The case studies in this volume cover drinking culture from a variety of perspectives, including literature, history, anthropology and the history of medicine.