Craze: Gin and Debauchery in An Age of Reason by Jessica Warner

Craze: Gin and Debauchery in An Age of Reason

Jessica Warner

288 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Rotgut gin—cheap, widely available, and remarkably potent—was the overwhelming drug of choice among London’s working poor in the early 1700s. Sold for pennies in taverns and squalid gin shops, on street corners and even in jails, gin was the origi...

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