![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other exemplars include Salt by Mark Kurlansky, or Bananas by Virginia Scott Jenkins. It’s a prime example of one of my favorite genres of book: the “microhistory” that uses a novel perspective to explore some aspect of history. This week’s book was a survey of human history, from the dawn of civilization to the Cold War, of the various ways that societal, health, political, technological, and economic factors drove the adoption of various beverages, and how the presence of those beverages in human society generated ripples of cause and effect, propelling advances and turns of history that led us to the world we live in. ![]()
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