A Nation Fermented: Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany

by Robert Shea Terrell

Book Overview

How did beer become one of the central commodities associated with the German nation? How did a little-known provincial production standard - the Reinheitsgebot, or Beer Purity Law - become a pillar of national consumer sentiments? How did the jovial, beer-drinking German become a fixture in the global imagination?

While the connection between beer and Germany seems self-evident, A Nation Fermented reveals how it was produced through a strange...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198881835
• ISBN13: 9780198881834
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"