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.
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
Pittsburgh University Press,
[2016]
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Collection: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century ;
19. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.