Gin
Subtitle: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva
Publisher: Justin, Charles & Co.
Published: February 25, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781932112009
Subjects: History; Social Science; Gin; Corporate & Business History - General; History - General History; Psychopathology - Addiction; Sociology; Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Anthropology - General; 18th century; Alcoholism; Drinking customs
First sentence: Forty years after the Glorious Revolution, as Parliament passed the first act to control the scourge of gin-drinking, Alexander Blunt (pseudonym of Elias Bockett, a distiller) would write the first epistle to Geneva 'in verse sublime'.