Gin
Series: Object Lessons;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 12 November 2020
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501353277
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages160 pages
- Size 164x118x14 mm
- Weight 150 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 153
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Long description:
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Gin tastes like Christmas to some and rotten pine chips to others, but nearly everyone familiar with the spirit holds immediate gin nostalgia.
Although early medical textbooks treated it as a healing agent, early alchemists (as well as their critics) claimed gin's base was a path to immortality-and also Satan's tool. In more recent times, the gin trade consolidated the commercial and political power of nations and prompted a social campaign against women. Gin has been used successfully as a defense for murder; blamed for massive unrest in 18th-century England; and advertised for as an abortifacient.
From its harshest proto-gin distillation days to the current smooth craft models, gin plays a powerful cultural role in film, music, and literature-one that is arguably older, broader, and more complex than any other spirit.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Table of Contents:
1. Gin and Juice: An Introduction
2. A Potent Three-Letter Etymology
3. The Basics: Juniper
4. The Basics: Distillation
5. Class and Type
6. The Great Style Divide
7. Dutch Courage and the British Navy
8. The British Gin Craze
9. Ice Harvest, American Style
10. Gincidents
11. Portraiture and Visuals
12. Lyrics and Verse
13. Film and Literature
14. Ginaissance
Acknowledgments
Index
