A History of the World in Six Glasses
by Tom Standage
2005 / 311 pages
rating 9 – history

Standage is not an historian but rather he calls himself a journalist and author. He specializes in comparing historical events and issues to today’s business methods and technology. (See The Victorian Internet or The Writing on the Wall.). But that’s not what A History of the World in Six Glasses is about. Rather, this book is about how six of the beverages we drink have influenced world history as we know it – or vice versa?  >>>>MORE>>>>