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. > >David M. Fahey<[log in to unmask]> > >