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Title: Great history
Review: This book tells the history of the world as seen thru the origins and spread of six drinks; beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and coke. Each drink gets several chapters, and the chapters are arranged chronologically. Thru each chapter, the author shows how the combination of human ingenuity and trial-and-error led to the discovery of a certain drink, and how the spread of that drink mirrored social changes. A good example cited by the book is Britian's policy towards China because of tea, and the ensuing opium wars. The book moves briskly, and is good at showing history from multiple points of view. All told, a great book.
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