Craze
Subtitle: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781568582313
Subjects: Liquor laws; History - General History; Europe - Great Britain - General; Social History; History: World; Modern - 18th Century; England; 18th century; Alcoholism; Gin; History
First sentence: ON 27 OCTOBER 1688, William of Orange, stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands and husband of Mary, daughter of James II of England, was stranded in the small Dutch port of Hellevoetsluys.