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Swinnen, Johan F. M., 1962- author.
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Beer -- History.
Brewing industry -- History.
Beer -- Social aspects -- History.
Beer -- Economic aspects -- History.
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Beeronomics : how be...
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Beeronomics : how beer explains the world / Johan Swinnen and Devin Briski.
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Swinnen, Johan F. M., 1962- author.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects
Beer -- History.
Brewing industry -- History.
Beer -- Social aspects -- History.
Beer -- Economic aspects -- History.
ISBN:
9780198808305 (hardback) :
0198808305 (hardback)
Description:
viii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Introduction: from monasteries to multinationals and back -- The world's oldest profession: brewing in the cradle of civilization -- A revolution every thousand years: how hops jump-started commercial brewing in medieval Europe -- The brew that launched a thousand ships: how porter paid for the British Royal Navy -- A revolution every thousand years, part II: how bottom fermentation made beer the darling of the scientific and industrial revolutions -- How tv killed the local brewery -- Beer monopoly: how the Belgian beer barons dethroned the king -- Socialist lubricant: liberalization, takeovers, and restructuring the East European brewing Industry -- The Belgian white: reincarnation of an old world brew -- The Reinheitsgebot: protection against competition or contamination? -- From land to brand: how nineteenth-century nationalist politics planted the seeds for the global trademark battle over "Budweiser" -- The great convergence: the fall of the beer-drinking nation and the rise of the beer-drinking world -- From vodka to baltika: deciphering Russia's recent love affair with beer -- Trading water or terroir?: the changing nature of the beer trade -- Craft nation: how Belgium's "peasant beers" became the best in the world -- Hop heads and localholics: strategies of the American craft beer movement -- Conclusion: how beer explains the world.
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Beer has played a pivotal role in history, from the transition to an agarian lifestyle in ancient Mesopotamia to bankrolling Britain's imperialist conquests. Beeronomics tells the story of beer through economics, the innovations it brought, and how its strategic taxation and regulation helped shape the world.
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