{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-drunkenness-how-why-where-and-when-humankind-has-gotten-merry-from-the-stone-age-to-the-present-9780525575375","title":"A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the internationally bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Etymologicon\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An entertaining bar hop though the past 10,000 years.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlmost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Making stops all over the world, \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Drunkenness\u003c\/i\u003e traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to the twentieth century, answering every possible question along the way: What did people drink? How much? Who did the drinking? Of the many possible reasons, why? On the way, learn about the Neolithic Shamans, who drank to communicate with the spirit world (no pun intended), marvel at how Greeks got giddy and Sumerians got sauced, and find out how bars in the Wild West were never quite like in the movies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is a history of the world at its inebriated best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in London in 1977, \u003cb\u003eMark Forsyth\u003c\/b\u003e (a.k.a The Inky Fool) was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a christening present and has never looked back. His book \u003ci\u003eThe Etymologicon\u003c\/i\u003e was a Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and his TED Talk \"What's a snollygoster?\" has had more than half a million views. He has also written a specially commissioned essay \"The Unknown Unknown\" for Independent Booksellers Week and the introduction for the new edition of the Collins English Dictionary. He lives in London with his dictionaries, and blogs at blog.inkyfool.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662197821714,"sku":"9780525575375","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5a56531f-ec99-4a32-abe0-412efb92d8b0.jpg?v=1733515984","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-short-history-of-drunkenness-how-why-where-and-when-humankind-has-gotten-merry-from-the-stone-age-to-the-present-9780525575375","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}