Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
1 The Grain and the Grape 1
2 Bacchanal 11
3 In Vino Veritas 28
4 Wine, Blood, Salvation 41
5 Barbarians 50
6 Islam 65
7 Brews for Breakfast 76
8 A New World of Drinking 91
9 Watkin's Ale 105
10 Pilgrims 116
11 Restoration 131
12 Rum 142
13 Gin Fever 159
14 Progress 175
15 Revolution 187
16 Warra Warra 200
17 Whiskey with an e 215
18 Romantic Drinking 237
19 Apostles of Cold Water 253
20 West 268
21 The King of San Francisco 281
22 Good Taste 293
23 Emancipation 308
24 Imperial Preference 322
25 La Fée Verte 333
26 Hatchetation 344
27 In the Chalk Trenches of Champagne 359
28 Amphibians 369
29 Lost 385
30 Crime and Punishment 400
31 The Bottle 412
32 Reconstruction 423
33 Flashbacks 433
34 Westernization 443
35 Messages 453
36 Singletons, Wine Lakes, and the Moscow Express 467
37 Fiat Lux 482
Notes 499
Index 529