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Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance /
The beer of today--brewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequently associated with young adults, sports, and drunkenness--is largely the result of scientific and industrial developments of the nineteenth century. Modern beer, however, has lit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Understanding the History of Brewing
- Chapter 2. Early Medieval Brewing
- Chapter 3. Urbanization and the Rise of Commercial Brewing
- Chapter 4. Hopped Beer, Hanse Towns, and the Origins of the Trade in Beer
- Chapter 5. The Spread of Hopped Beer Brewing: The Northern Low Countries
- Chapter 6. The Spread of Hopped Beer Brewing: The Southern Low Countries, England, and Scandinavia
- Chapter 7. The Mature Industry: Levels of Production
- Chapter 8. The Mature Industry: Levels of Consumption
- Chapter 9. The Mature Industry: Technology
- Chapter 10. The Mature Industry: Capital Investment and Innovation
- Chapter 11. Types of Beer and Their International Exchange
- Chapter 12. Taxes and Protection
- Chapter 13. Guilds, Brewery Workers, and Work in Breweries
- Chapter 14. Epilogue: The Decline of Brewing
- Appendix. On Classification and Measurement
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.