Distilled Beverages

In the News . . .

• Shackleton's South Pole Whisky Returns to Scotland -- BBC News (17 January 2011)

• Ancient medicines were alcoholic -- BBC News (14 April 2009)
  
  
• Bampilis, Tryfon. Greek Whisky:The Localization of a Global Commodity. NY: Berghan, 2013.
  
  
• Collins, Tony. Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2002.
  
  
• Coulombe, Charles A. Rum: The Epic Story of the Drink That Conquered the World. Citadel, 2005.
  
  
• Comer, James. "Distilled Beverages." In The Cambridge World History of Food, ed. by K. F. Kiple and K. C. Ornelas. Cambridge, UK; NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000.III.5.
  
  
• Curtis, Wayne. And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. Broadway, 2007.
  
  
• Drink Culture: It's as Old as the Hills -- New Scientist (13 November 2009)
  
  
• Eight ancient drinks uncorked by science -- msnbc (15 December 2009)
  
  
• Foss, Richard. Rum: A Global History. Reaktion, 2012.
  
  
• Holt, Mack P. (Ed.). Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2006.
  
  
• Smith, Frederick H. Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History. University Press of Florida, 2008.
  
  
• Standing, Tom. A History of the World in 6 Glasses. NY: Walker, 2005.
  
  
• Stewart, Amy. The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Creat the World's Great Drinks. Algonquin, 2013.
  
  
• Wilson, Thomas M. (Ed.). Drinking Cultures: Alcohol and Identity. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2005.
  
  
• The World in a Glass: Six Drinks That Changed History -- nationalgeographic.com (3 October 2005)