Book Reviews - Summer 2005

Drinking in the Past

Six beverages that changed the world

By Gary Cross

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Gary Cross is distinguished professor of modern history at Penn State University. His books include Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture, and An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America.