A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present

by Mark Forsyth

Book Overview

From the internationally bestselling author of The Etymologicon, a lively and fascinating exploration of how, throughout history, each civilization has found a way to celebrate, or to control, the eternal human drive to get sloshed

"An entertaining bar hop though the past 10,000 years."--The New York Times Book Review

Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525575375
• ISBN13: 9780525575375
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.0"