Whiskey Women /

Shortly after graduating from University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth "Bessie" Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphroaig Distillery on the Scottish island Islay. Williamson quickly found herself joining the boys in the tasting room, studying the distillation proce...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Minnick, Fred, 1978-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Women.
Whiskey industry.
Whiskey.
Distillers.
Businesswomen.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Femmes > Histoire.
Distillateurs > Histoire.
Whisky > Histoire.
Whisky > Industrie > Histoire.
Women > History.
Businesswomen > History.
Distillers > History.
Whiskey > History.
Whiskey industry > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Before whiskey
  • The first distillations
  • Tough Irish women
  • Early Scotch whisky women
  • Early American women
  • The targeted and early marketers
  • Temperance women
  • Women moonshiners and bootleggers in Prohibition
  • Repeal women saving whiskey
  • The post-prohibition legal battles
  • Post-prohibition women bootleggers
  • Whiskey's progressive side
  • The Lady of Laphroaig
  • Modern women
  • Organizing the whiskey effort
  • For women, by women.

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