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050	0	0	_aTP607.R9 _bW55 2005
082	0	4	_a641.2590973 _222
100	1		_aWilliams, Ian, _d1949- _eauthor. _9425695
245	1	0	_aRum : _ba social and sociable history of the real spirit of 1776 / _cIan Williams.
246	3	0	_aSocial and sociable history of the real spirit of 1776
264		1	_aNew York, N.Y. : _bNation Books, _c[2005]
264		4	_c©2005
300			_axvii, 340 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index.
520	1		_a"Rum shaped the modern world. The drink, and the molasses that it was made from, was to the eighteenth century what oil is to the present, and nowhere more so than in North America. Rum was used by the colonists to clear Native American tribes and to buy slaves. To make it, they regularly traded with the enemy French during the Seven Years' War, angering their British masters and setting themselves on the road to Revolution. And the regular flow of rum was essential to keeping both armies in the field. From Valley Forge to the trenches of the First World War, soldiers relied on rum to keep up their fighting spirits." "Even though the Puritans themselves were fond of rum in quantities that would appall modern day doctors, temperance and Prohibition have obscured the historical role of the "Global Spirit with its warm heart in the Caribbean." Ian Williams's book restores rum's rightful place in history, taking us across space and time, from its origins in the plantations of Barbados through Puritan and Revolutionary New England, to voodoo rites in modern Haiti, where to mix rum with Coke risks invoking the wrath of the gods, and across the Florida straits where Fidel and the Bacardi family are still fighting over the rights for the ingredients of a Cuba Libre."--BOOK JACKET.
588			_aMachine converted from AACR2 source record.
650		0	_aRum industry _zNorth America _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aRum _zNorth America _xHistory _9688508
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783 _xEconomic aspects.
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