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Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700-1880.
How did the brewing of beer become a scientific process? Sumner explores this question by charting the theory and practice of the trade in Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From an oral culture derived from home-based skills, brewing industrialized rapidly and devel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Principal Dramatis Personae; Introduction; 1. The Curious Brewer; 2. The Theorist and the Thermometer; 3. Brewery Instructors in Public and Private; 4. The Value of Beer; 5. Chemists, Druggists and Beer Doctors; 6. Professors in the Brewhouse; 7. Treatises for the Trade; 8. Analysis and Synthesis; Conclusion; Glossary; Notes; Works Cited; Index.