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WHAP Six Glasses Summer Reading Intro 11
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Download: http://tyb4.com/a-history-of-the-worl... • Whatever your favourite tipple, when you pour yourself a drink, you have the past in a glass. • You can likely find them all in your own kitchen ΓÇö beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, cola. Line them up on the counter, and there you have it: thousands of years of human history in six drinks. • Tom Standage opens a window onto the past in this tour of six beverages that remain essentials today. En route he makes fascinating forays into the byways of western culture: Why were ancient Egyptians buried with beer? Why was wine considered a ΓÇ£classierΓÇ¥ drink than beer by the Romans? How did rum grog help the British navy defeat Napoleon? What is the relationship between coffee and revolution? And how did Coca-Cola become the number one poster-product for globalization decades before the term was even coined?
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