Gin
Subtitle: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva the Eighteenth Century Gin Craze
Publisher: Justin, Charles & Co.
Published: April 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781932112252
Subjects: Psychopathology - Addiction; History; History - General History; History: World; Corporate & Business History - General; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / General; General; 18th century; Alcoholism; Drinking customs; Gin; Great Britain
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'.