Join us to discuss this book at our next Nature’s Narratives Book Discussion Group on Wednesday, January 30 at 5:30 in the Wister Center. In A History of the World in 6 Glasses, Tom Standage explores the history of six influential beverages: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola (and.
From the Age of Reason to the Era of Globalization, drinks have played a central role in changing the way people live.
This book explores what it has meant to be human over thousands of years. Standage presents coffee as the catalyst for such ideas as the stock exchange and the French Revolution. But I will never be able to look at these beverage the same way again after reading this book. Standage argues that beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and cola have each. was so important to Mesopotamia and Egypt that it was used to pay wages. In A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom. Beer was first made in the Fertile Crescent and by 3000 B.C.E.
Did you know that democracy was invented over a glass of wine? Or that brandy was once called the “water of life”? Or that distilled drinks helped the early settlers of America establish themselves as rulers of the New World? According to Tom Standage, the “flow of history” of human civilization can be told through the stories of a few important beverages: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca Cola.ĭon’t get me wrong, I love a good cup of coffee. A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola.
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