Alcohol in the Early Modern World is a copious resource that will form the basis and background for many more specifically detailed historical enquiries.
As a body of scholarly research on the place of drink in the social affairs and cultural imagination of a world poised on the brink of the age of enlightenment, this is an important and versatile repository of knowledge. If drinking was ever cloaked in something like Edenic innocence, it was about to shed the mantle forever.
~ Stuart Walton
