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Title
Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776
Book Title
Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776
ISBN
1560256516
EAN
9781560256519
Binding
Hardback
Date of Publication
20050727
Release Title
Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776
Artist
Williams, Ian
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N/A
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Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
Rum: a Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776
Item Height
210mm
Author
Ian Williams
Publisher
Hachette Books
Item Width
140mm
Subject
History
Number of Pages
328 Pages

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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 bookas biting and multilayered as the drink itselftriumphantly 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.

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Hachette Books
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9781560256519
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Author
Ian Williams
Publication Name
Rum: a Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
328 Pages

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Item Height
210mm
Item Width
140mm

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Ian Williams
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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