Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets and as objects of social, political, and religious...(展开全部)

Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets and as objects of social, political, and religious...(展开全部)

罗德·菲利普斯（Rod Phillips），卡尔顿大学历史系教授，著有《葡萄酒简史》（A Short History of Wine）、《葡萄酒9000年：一部全球史》（9000 Years of Wine: A Global History）等多部酒类（尤其是葡萄酒） 研究的书籍。 . 菲利普斯每周为《渥太华公民报》（Ottawa Citizen）撰写葡萄酒专栏，为NUVO杂志和专业葡萄酒媒体，如加拿大Vines杂志和英国权威葡萄酒杂志《美酒世界》（The World of Fine Wine）撰写文章。 . 罗德·菲利普斯通过了英国葡萄酒大师（Master of Wine，MW）项目的认证，获得了“葡萄酒大师”的称号。自20世纪50年代设立这一项目以来，世界范围内获得该称号的不到400人。作为世界知名的葡萄酒大师，菲利普斯还在世界各地的葡萄酒大赛...(展开全部)

Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets and as objects of social, political, and religious...(展开全部)

罗德·菲利普斯（Rod Phillips），卡尔顿大学历史系教授，著有《葡萄酒简史》（A Short History of Wine）、《葡萄酒9000年：一部全球史》（9000 Years of Wine: A Global History）等多部酒类（尤其是葡萄酒） 研究的书籍。 . 菲利普斯每周为《渥太华公民报》（Ottawa Citizen）撰写葡萄酒专栏，为NUVO杂志和专业葡萄酒媒体，如加拿大Vines杂志和英国权威葡萄酒杂志《美酒世界》（The World of Fine Wine）撰写文章。 . 罗德·菲利普斯通过了英国葡萄酒大师（Master of Wine，MW）项目的认证，获得了“葡萄酒大师”的称号。自20世纪50年代设立这一项目以来，世界范围内获得该称号的不到400人。作为世界知名的葡萄酒大师，菲利普斯还在世界各地的葡萄酒大赛...(展开全部)

Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets and as objects of social, political, and religious...(展开全部)

In Intoxicating Manchuria, Norman Smith reveals how huge intoxicant industries were altered by warlord rule, Japanese occupation, and war. Powering the spread of alcohol and opium -- initially heralded as markers of class or modernity and whose use was well documented -- these industries flourished throughout the early twentieth century even as a vigorous anti-intoxicant moveme...(展开全部)

Norman Smith is a professor of history at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is the author of Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and Japanese Occupation and Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China’s Northeast.

In Intoxicating Manchuria, Norman Smith reveals how huge intoxicant industries were altered by warlord rule, Japanese occupation, and war. Powering the spread of alcohol and opium -- initially heralded as markers of class or modernity and whose use was well documented -- these industries flourished throughout the early twentieth century even as a vigorous anti-intoxicant moveme...(展开全部)

Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, whi...(展开全部)