This book is also available from Routledge in paperback at circa US$24 (no,
I don't own stock in Routledge...).

Cheers,  Mac Marshall

At 05:51 PM 12/13/99 -0500, David M. Fahey wrote:
>        Just received a review copy from _Choice_ of a new book by the
well-known
>social historian John Burnett.  It is _Liquid Pleasures: A Social History
>of Drinks in Modern Britain_ (Routledge, 1999).  Price, $75!  This being
>exam week, I have got little further than the table of contents.  After
>chapters on water, milk, tea, coffee, and soft drinks, there are three on
>alcoholic beverages: beer, wine, spirits.  The bibliography seems a bit
>eccentric.  For instance, there is nothing by David W. Gutzke, not his
>bibliographical volume, not his monographic book, and not any of his
articles.
>
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