Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt: Stone-age brew -- Civilized beer -- Wine in Greece and Rome: The delight of wine -- The imperial vine -- Spirits in the colonial period: High spirits, high seas -- The drinks that built America -- Coffee in the age of reason: the great soberer -- The coffeehouse internet -- Tea and the British Empire: Empires of tea -- Tea power -- Coca-cola and the rise of America: From soda to cola -- Globalization in a bottle.
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