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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
160
ISBN-13:
9781501353277
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1501353276
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
12 nov 2020
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
164mm
Højde:
126mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Oplagsdato:
12 nov 2020
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge