Rough Spirits & High Society: The Culture of Drink

Author: Ruth Ball Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The tavern, the inn, the coffee house, the tea shop: these are places where, throughout history, we have met and socialised and where the issues of the day could be discussed over a drink. Rough Spirits and High Society shows the surprising, often subversive ways in which drinking has changed the world, and the ways in which society has struggled to control the places where people drink. Postal services developed between...Read more